Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals Of Sylvia Plath

Quotes

• “I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never t...”
• “Yes, I was infatuated with you: I am still. No one has ever heightened such a keen capacity of physical sensation in me....”
• “I want to write because I have the urge to excel in one medium of translation and expression of life. I can't be satisfi...”
• “How can I tell Bob that my happiness streams from having wrenched a piece out of my life, a piece of hurt and beauty, an...”
• “Some things are hard to write about. After something happens to you, you go to write it down, and either you over dramat...”
• “All, all, becomes profitable. Education is of the most satisfying and available nature. I am at Smith! Which two years a...”
• “And when at last you find someone to whom you feel you can pour out your soul, you stop in shock at the words you utter—...”
• “Oh, something is there, waiting for me. Perhaps someday the revelation will burst in upon me and I will see the other si...”
• “I wonder why I don't go to bed and go to sleep. But then it would be tomorrow, so I decide that no matter how tired, no ...”
• “Writing, then, was a substitute for myself: if you don't love me, love my writing & love me for my writing. It is also m...”
• “And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to impr...”
• “How we need another soul to cling to, another body to keep us warm. To rest and trust; to give your soul in confidence: ...”
• “Living with him is like being told a perpetual story: his mind is the biggest, most imaginative I have ever met. I could...”
• “I don't see,' I said, 'how people stand being old. Your insides all dry up. When you're young you're so self-reliant. Yo...”
• “I have the choice of being constantly active and happy or introspectively passive and sad. Or I can go mad by ricochetin...”
• “I like people too much or not at all. I've got to go down deep, to fall into people, to really know them.”
• “So much working, reading, thinking, living to do! A lifetime is not long enough.”
• “But writing poems and letters doesn't seem to do much good.”
• “let me live, love, and say it well in good sentences”
• “I desire the things that will destroy me in the end.”
• “I may never be happy, but tonight I am content.”
• “Kiss me, and you will see how important I am.”
• “Is anyone anywhere happy?”
• “God, who am I?”