Top 83 Quotes by Sylvia Plath

About Sylvia Plath

These are some quotes by American author Sylvia Plath Poet, who lived between October 27, 1932 and February 11, 1963.

One should be able to control and manipulate experiences with an informed and intelligent mind.

One should be able to control and manipulate experiences with an informed and intelligent mind.

Sylvia Plath

I love people. Everybody. I love them, I think, as a stamp collector loves his collection. Every story, every incident, every bit of conversation is raw material for me.

I love people. Everybody. I love them, I think, as a stamp collector loves his collection. Every story, every incident, every bit of conversation is raw material for me.

Sylvia Plath

But life is long. And it is the long run that balances the short flare of interest and passion.

But life is long. And it is the long run that balances the short flare of interest and passion.

Sylvia Plath

Excellent teachers showered on to us like meteors: Biology teachers holding up human brains, English teachers inspiring us with a personal ideological fierceness about Tolstoy and Plato, Art teachers leading us through the slums of Boston, then back to the easel to hurl public school gouache with social awareness and fury.

Sylvia Plath

I have felt great advances in my poetry, the main one being a growing victory over word nuances and a superfluity of adjectives.

I have felt great advances in my poetry, the main one being a growing victory over word nuances and a superfluity of adjectives.

Sylvia Plath

Indecision and reveries are the anesthetics of constructive action.

Indecision and reveries are the anesthetics of constructive action.

Sylvia Plath

It seems this is an age of clever critics who keep bewailing the fact that there are no works worthy of criticism.

It seems this is an age of clever critics who keep bewailing the fact that there are no works worthy of criticism.

Sylvia Plath

Mother believed that I should have an enormous amount of sleep, and so I was never really tired when I went to bed. This was the best time of day, when I could lie in the vague twilight, drifting off to sleep, making up dreams inside my head the way they should go.

Sylvia Plath

Dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well. I do it so it feels like hell. I do it so it feels real. I guess you could say I've a call.

Dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well. I do it so it feels like hell. I do it so it feels real. I guess you could say I've a call.

Sylvia Plath

My childhood landscape was not land but the end of the land - the cold, salt, running hills of the Atlantic. I sometimes think my vision of the sea is the clearest thing I own.

My childhood landscape was not land but the end of the land - the cold, salt, running hills of the Atlantic. I sometimes think my vision of the sea is the clearest thing I own.

Sylvia Plath

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