Sylvia Plath

Sylvia Plath

Poet, Novelist

Sylvia Plath was an American poet and novelist, known for her confessional style and her impactful work, 'The Bell Jar'.

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Born
October 27, 1932
Died
February 11, 1963
Quotes
610
Rank
#23

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"I'm never going to get married." "You're crazy." Buddy brightened. "You'll change your mind." "No. My mind's made up."

Crazy Mind Married
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"Masks are the order of the day - and the least I can do is cultivate the illusion that I am gay, serene, not hollow and afraid."

Gay Order Illusion
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"What I didn't say was that each time I picked up a German dictionary or a German book, the very sight of those dense, black, barbed-wire letters made my mind shut like a clam."

Book Sight Black
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"I may never be happy, but tonight I am content. At times like this I'd call myself a fool to ask for more."

Tonight May Fool
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"I have the one person I could ever love in this world. Now I must work to be a person worthy of that."

World This World Worthy
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"God has to remind us this isn't heaven by a long shot, so he increases the radios and lethal flies."

Long Heaven Radio
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"I need the reality of other people, work, to fulfill myself. Must never become a mere mother and housewife."

Mother Reality People
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"Now I am silent, hate Up to my neck, Thick, thick. I do not speak."

Hate Necks Speak
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"I think writers are the most narcissistic people. Well, I musn't say this, I like many of them, a great many of my friends are writers."

Thinking People Narcissistic
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"The one man in the room who was as big as his poems, huge, with hulk and dynamic chunks of words."

Inspirational Men Rooms
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"I am I-I am powerful, but to what extent? I am I."

Powerful
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"The reason I haven't been writing in this book for so long is partly that I haven't had one decent coherent thought to put down."

Book Writing Long
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"I, love, I am the pure acetylene virgin attended by roses."

Rose Virgins Pure
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"Let's face it: I'm scared, scared and frozen. First, I guess, I'm afraid for myself...the old primitive urge for survival. It's getting so I live every moment with terrible intensity."

Survival Frozen Faces
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"Death may whiten in sun or out of it."

May Sun
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"I think I am worthwhile just because I have optical nerves and can try to put down what they perceive. What a fool!"

Thinking Trying Nerves
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"Sunday-the doctor's paradise! Doctors at country clubs, doctors at the seaside, doctors with mistresses, doctors with wives, doctors in church, doctors in yachts, doctors everywhere resolutely being people, not doctors."

Country Sunday Doctors
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