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Sylvia Plath Quotes: "I love my rejection slips. They show me I try."

I love my rejection slips. They show me I try.



Sylvia Plath Quotes: "So learn about life. Cut yourself a big slice with the silver server, a big slice of pie. Open your eyes. Let life happen."

So learn about life. Cut yourself a big slice with the silver server, a big slice of pie. Open your eyes. Let life happen.




Sylvia Plath Quotes: "I wanted to crawl in between those black lines of print, the way you crawl through a fence, and go to sleep under that beautiful big green fig-tree."

I wanted to crawl in between those black lines of print, the way you crawl through a fence, and go to sleep under that beautiful big green fig-tree.



Sylvia Plath Quotes: "I am not cruel, only truthful."

I am not cruel, only truthful.




Sylvia Plath Quotes: "I felt very still and empty, the way the eye of a tornado must feel, moving dully along in the middle of the surrounding hullabaloo."

I felt very still and empty, the way the eye of a tornado must feel, moving dully along in the middle of the surrounding hullabaloo.



Sylvia Plath Quotes: "I am myself. That is not enough."

I am myself. That is not enough.



Sylvia Plath Quotes: "I sank back in the gray, plush seat and closed my eyes. The air of the bell jar wadded round me and I couldn't stir."

I sank back in the gray, plush seat and closed my eyes. The air of the bell jar wadded round me and I couldn't stir.




Sylvia Plath Quotes: "Life has been some combination of fairy-tale coincidence and joie de vivre and shocks of beauty together with some hurtful self-questioning."

Life has been some combination of fairy-tale coincidence and joie de vivre and shocks of beauty together with some hurtful self-questioning.



Sylvia Plath Quotes: "How can you be so many women to so many strange people, oh you strange girl?"

How can you be so many women to so many strange people, oh you strange girl?



Sylvia Plath Quotes: "We stayed at home to write, to consolidate our outstretched selves."

We stayed at home to write, to consolidate our outstretched selves.



Sylvia Plath Quotes: "So much working, reading, thinking, living to do! A lifetime is not long enough."

So much working, reading, thinking, living to do! A lifetime is not long enough.



Sylvia Plath Quotes: "I talk to God but the sky is empty."

I talk to God but the sky is empty.




Sylvia Plath Quotes: "But I wasn't sure. I wasn't sure at all. How did I know that someday―at college, in Europe, somewhere, anywhere―the bell jar, with its stifling distortions, wouldn't descend again?"

But I wasn't sure. I wasn't sure at all. How did I know that someday―at college, in Europe, somewhere, anywhere―the bell jar, with its stifling distortions, wouldn't descend again?



Sylvia Plath Quotes: "Love life day by day, color by color, touch by touch."

Love life day by day, color by color, touch by touch.



Sylvia Plath Quotes: "…I hate myself for not being able to go downstairs naturally and seek comfort in numbers. I hate myself for having to sit here and be torn between I know not what within me."

…I hate myself for not being able to go downstairs naturally and seek comfort in numbers. I hate myself for having to sit here and be torn between I know not what within me.



Sylvia Plath Quotes: "My mother said the cure for thinking too much about yourself was helping somebody who was worse off than you."

My mother said the cure for thinking too much about yourself was helping somebody who was worse off than you.



Sylvia Plath Quotes: "There is a certain unique and strange delight about walking down an empty street alone."

There is a certain unique and strange delight about walking down an empty street alone.



Sylvia Plath Quotes: "Some pale, hueless flicker of sensitivity is in me. God, must I lose it in cooking scrambled eggs for a man."

Some pale, hueless flicker of sensitivity is in me. God, must I lose it in cooking scrambled eggs for a man.



Sylvia Plath Quotes: "It is awful to want to go away and to want to go nowhere."

It is awful to want to go away and to want to go nowhere.



Sylvia Plath Quotes: "The blood jet is poetry and there is no stopping it."

The blood jet is poetry and there is no stopping it.



Sylvia Plath Quotes: "Oh what a poet I will flay myself into."

Oh what a poet I will flay myself into.



Sylvia Plath Quotes: "I thought the most beautiful thing in the world must be shadow."

I thought the most beautiful thing in the world must be shadow.



Sylvia Plath Quotes: "I am silver and exact.I have no preconceptions."

I am silver and exact.I have no preconceptions.



Sylvia Plath Quotes: "If only I knew what I wanted I could try to see about getting it."

If only I knew what I wanted I could try to see about getting it.



Sylvia Plath Quotes: "Doreen had intuition. Everything she said was like a secret voice speaking straight out of my own bones."

Doreen had intuition. Everything she said was like a secret voice speaking straight out of my own bones.



Sylvia Plath Quotes: "I'm about fifty years behind as far as my preferences go and I must say that the poets who excite me most are the Americans. There are very few contemporary English poets that I admire."

I'm about fifty years behind as far as my preferences go and I must say that the poets who excite me most are the Americans. There are very few contemporary English poets that I admire.



Sylvia Plath Quotes: "I am too pure for you or anyone."

I am too pure for you or anyone.



Sylvia Plath Quotes: "Mother of otherness, Eat me."

Mother of otherness, Eat me.



Sylvia Plath Quotes: "Your room is not your prison. You are."

Your room is not your prison. You are.



Sylvia Plath Quotes: "Tomorrow is another day toward death."

Tomorrow is another day toward death.



Sylvia Plath Quotes: "Let me not be weak and tell others how bleeding I am internally; how day by day it drips, and gathers, and congeals."

Let me not be weak and tell others how bleeding I am internally; how day by day it drips, and gathers, and congeals.



Sylvia Plath Quotes: "I know the bottom, she says. I know it with my great tap root: It is what you fear. I do not fear it: I have been there."

I know the bottom, she says. I know it with my great tap root: It is what you fear. I do not fear it: I have been there.



Sylvia Plath Quotes: "What did my fingers do before they held him? What did my heart do, with its love?"

What did my fingers do before they held him? What did my heart do, with its love?



Sylvia Plath Quotes: "One thing, I try to be honest. And what is revealed is often rather hideously unflattering."

One thing, I try to be honest. And what is revealed is often rather hideously unflattering.



Sylvia Plath Quotes: "Sometimes I feel like I'm not solid. I'm hollow. There's nothing behind my eyes. I'm a negative of a person. All I want is blackness, blackness and silence."

Sometimes I feel like I'm not solid. I'm hollow. There's nothing behind my eyes. I'm a negative of a person. All I want is blackness, blackness and silence.



Sylvia Plath Quotes: "Dying Is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well."

Dying Is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well.



Sylvia Plath Quotes: "It is a terrible thing to be so open: it is as if my heart put on a face and walked into the world."

It is a terrible thing to be so open: it is as if my heart put on a face and walked into the world.



Sylvia Plath Quotes: "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 Quotes: "O love, how did you get here?"

O love, how did you get here?



Sylvia Plath Quotes: "I must get my soul back from you; I am killing my flesh without it."

I must get my soul back from you; I am killing my flesh without it.



Sylvia Plath Quotes: "What a man wants is a mate and what a woman wants is infinite security."

What a man wants is a mate and what a woman wants is infinite security.



Sylvia Plath Quotes: "Is there no way out of the mind?"

Is there no way out of the mind?



Sylvia Plath Quotes: "The slime of all my yesterdays rots in the hollow of my skull."

The slime of all my yesterdays rots in the hollow of my skull.



Sylvia Plath Quotes: "Out of the ash I rise with my red hair and I eat men like air."

Out of the ash I rise with my red hair and I eat men like air.



Sylvia Plath Quotes: "The silence depressed me. It wasn't the silence of silence. It was my own silence."

The silence depressed me. It wasn't the silence of silence. It was my own silence.



Sylvia Plath Quotes: "I'm sarcastic, skeptical, and sometimes callous because I'm still afraid, deep down, of letting myself be hurt."

I'm sarcastic, skeptical, and sometimes callous because I'm still afraid, deep down, of letting myself be hurt.



Sylvia Plath Quotes: "I can't think logically about who I am or where I am going. I have been very ecstatic, horribly depressed, shocked, elated, enlightened, and enervated."

I can't think logically about who I am or where I am going. I have been very ecstatic, horribly depressed, shocked, elated, enlightened, and enervated.



Sylvia Plath Quotes: "I have never found anybody who could stand to accept the daily demonstrative love I feel in me, and give back as good as I give."

I have never found anybody who could stand to accept the daily demonstrative love I feel in me, and give back as good as I give.



Sylvia Plath Quotes: "I have stitched life into me like a rare organ"

I have stitched life into me like a rare organ