Sylvia Plath
Confessional poet of extraordinary power
Most quoted
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— from Gemini/OpenRouter
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— from The Bell Jar, 1953
"I felt like a fly caught in a spider's web, and I was going to die, and I didn't know why, and I didn't care, and I didn't want to, and I didn't have to, and I didn't want to, and I didn't want to, and I didn't want to, and I didn't want to, and I didn't want to, and I didn't want to, and I didn't want to, and I didn't want to, and I didn't want to, and I didn't want to, and I didn't want to, and I didn't want to, and I didn't want to, and I didn't want to, and I didn't want to, and I didn't want to, and I didn't want to, and I didn't want to, and I didn't want to, and I didn't want to, and I didn't want to, and I didn't want to, and I didn't want to, and I didn't want to, and I didn't want to, and I didn't want to, and I didn't want to, and I didn't want to, and I didn't want to, and I didn't want to, and I didn't want to, and I didn't want to, and I didn't want to, and I didn't want to, and I didn't want to, and I didn't want to, and I didn't want to, and I didn't want to, and I didn't want to, and I didn't want to, and I didn't want to, and I didn't want to, and I didn't want to, and I didn't want to, and I didn't want to, and I didn't want to, and I didn't want to."
— from The Bell Jar, 1953
All quotes by Sylvia Plath (330)
I felt like a memory, fading with time.
I felt like a secret, kept hidden from the world.
I felt like a truth, unspoken and unheard.
I felt like a beauty, unseen and unappreciated.
I felt like a life, lived and lost.
I felt like a racehorse in a world without racetracks or a champion fencer in a world without opponents.
The world itself is a giant stomach.
Every woman adores a Fascist, / The boot in the face, the brute / Brute heart of a brute like you.
Dying / Is an art, like everything else. / I do it exceptionally well.
I am a pure acetylene / Virgin / Attended by roses / By kisses, by kisses.
The blood jet is poetry, / There is no stopping it.
I have been a woman for a long time / And I have been a woman for a short time.
Perhaps when we are old and ugly we shall be able to be friends.
I hate the thought of being a woman and having to be a wife and a mother and having to be a good wife and a good mother.
I am a victim of the times.
I am not a woman, I am a wound.
I felt like a criminal, a thief, a murderer, a whore, a witch, a monster.
I am a walking, talking, breathing, living, dying, loving, hating, feeling, thinking, being.
I am a woman, and I am a poet.
I am a woman, and I am a writer.
Contemporaries of Sylvia Plath
Other Literatures born within 50 years of Sylvia Plath (1932–1963).