Quotes from Sylvia Plath

I summoned my little chorus of voices. Doesn't your work interest you, Esther? You know, Esther, you've got the perfect setup of a true neurotic. You'll never get anywhere like that, you'll never get anywhere live that, you'll never get anywhere like that.

Love Is a Parallax

in the middle of all the static, I heard a familiar name clear as A on the piano in the middle of all the tuning instruments of an orchestra.

As I stared down at Constantin the way you stare down at a bright, unattainable pebble at the bottom of a deep well, his eyelids lifted and he looked through me, and his eyes were full of love. I watched dumbly as a shutter of recognition clicked across the blur of tenderness and the wide pupils went glossy and depthless as patent leather.

What I hate is the thought of being under a man's thumb," I had told Doctor Nolan.

These are my hands My knees I may be skin and bone, Nevertheless, I am the same, identical woman

Cisza podzia?a?a na mnie przygn?biaj?co. Nie ta na zewn?trz, ale ta, co by?a we mnie samej.

Y si mi tutora hubiera sabido cuán asustada estaba y cuán seriamente contemplaba posibles soluciones extremas, como el obtener un certificado médico que me declarara incapacitada para el estudio de la Química, en que constara que las fórmulas me mareaban y cosas por el estilo, estoy segura de que no me hubiera escuchado un solo minuto y me habría hecho hacer el curso a pesar de todo.

Then something bent down and took hold of me and shook me like the end of the world. Whee-ee-ee-ee-ee, it shrilled, through an air crackling with blue light, and with each flash a great jolt drubbed me till I thought my bones would break and the sap fly out of me like a split plant. I wondered what terrible thing it was I had done.

I can change, whittle my square edges to fit in a round hole. God, I hope I'm never going to massacre myself that way.

And damn it to hell, if I don't be quiet I'll never get that Botany done! –

I hated the very idea of the eighteenth century, with all those smug men writing tight little couplets and being so dead keen on reason. So I'd skipped it. They let you do that in honors, you were much freer. I had been so free I'd spent most of my time on Dylan Thomas. A friend of mine, also in honors, had managed never to read a word of Shakespeare; but she was a real expert on the Four Quartets.

Nada melhor do que vomitar com outra pessoa para ganhar intimidade

Children made me sick.

Você nunca se decepciona quando não espera nada de alguém.

That's one of the reasons I never wanted to get married. The last thing I wanted was infinite security and to be the place an arrow shoots off from. I wanted change and excitement and to shoot off in all directions myself

I cannot undo myself, and the train is steaming.

I am silver and exact.

Buddy's father was a teacher, and I think Buddy could have been a teacher as well, he was always trying to explain things to me and introduce me to new knowledge.

Dodo Conway was a Catholic who had gone to Barnard and then married an architect who had gone to Columbia and was also a Catholic. They had a big, rambling house up the street from us, set behind a morbid façade of pine trees, and surrounded by scooters, tricycles, doll carriages, toy fire trucks, baseball bat, badminton nets, croquet wickets, hamster cages and cocker spaniel puppies--the whole sprawling paraphernalia of suburban childhood.

Pensavo: dovrebbe esserci un rituale per nascere una seconda volta: rappezzata, rinchiusa e poi riconosciuta idonea a riprendere la via.

Se eu nunca aprendesse, nunca teria que colocar aquilo em prática.

Physics made me sick the whole time I learned it. What I couldn't stand was this shrinking everything into letters and numbers...I knew chemistry would be worse, because I'd seen a big chart of the ninety-odd elements hung up in the chemistry lab, and all of the perfectly good words like gold and silver and cobalt and aluminum were shortened to ugly abbreviations with different decimal numbers after them.

ama as?l son kez yatt???mda bilinecek deÄŸerim: aÄŸaçlar dokunabilir o zaman, bana ay?racak zamanlar? olur çiçeklerin.