One should be able to control and manipulate experiences with an informed and intelligent mind. Sylvia Plath controlexperienceinform Change image and share on social
My mother's face floated to mind, a pale, reproachful moon, at her last and first visit to the asylum since my twentieth birthday. A daughter in an asylum! I had done that to her. Still, she had obviously decided to forgive me. Sylvia Plath asylumbirthdaydaughter share on social
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 bitecollectioncollector Change image and share on social
How frail the human heart must be - a mirrored pool of thought. Sylvia Plath frailhearthuman Change image and share on social
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 adjectiveadvancefelt Change image and share on social
Perfection is terrible; it cannot have children. Sylvia Plath childperfectionterrible Change image and share on social
I have the choice of being constantly active and happy or introspectively passive and sad. Sylvia Plath activechoiceconstantly Change image and share on social
There is something suspect, especially in America, about people who don't have ten-year plans for a career or at least a regular job. Sylvia Plath americacareerjob Change image and share on social
Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously close to wanting nothing. Sylvia Plath closedangerouslyfind Change image and share on social
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 atlanticchildhoodclear Change image and share on social
