Sylvia Plath Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously close to wanting nothing.”

“What a man is is an arrow into the future, and what a woman is is the place the arrow shoots off from.”

“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.”

“Apparently, the most difficult feat for a Cambridge male is to accept a woman not merely as feeling, not merely as thinking, but as managing a complex, vital interweaving of both.”

“If I have not the power to put myself in the place of other people, but must be continually burrowing inward, I shall never be the magnanimous creative person I wish to be. Yet I am hypnotized by the workings of the individual, alone, and am continually using myself as a specimen.”

“If neurotic is wanting two mutually exclusive things at one and the same time, then I'm neurotic as hell. I'll be flying back and forth between one mutually exclusive thing and another for the rest of my days.”

“Poetry at its best can do you a lot of harm.”

“Poetry, I feel, is a tyrannical discipline. You've got to go so far so fast in such a small space; you've got to burn away all the peripherals.”

“Wear your heart on your skin in this life.”

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