Sylvia Plath
Confessional poet of extraordinary power
Most quoted
"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, and I didn't want to, and I didn"
— 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 think that one should be able to find renewal in everything.
I think that one should be able to find rebirth in everything.
I may be a bit of a bore, but I am a bore with a purpose.
I am a woman, and I am a poet, and I am a mother, and I am a wife, and I am a human being, and I am a lot of other things, and I am not going to be defined by any one of them.
I am not a victim. I am a survivor.
I am not afraid of death. I am afraid of not living.
I am not a feminist. I am a human being.
I am not a muse. I am a poet.
I am not a goddess. I am a woman.
I am not a saint. I am a sinner.
I am not a hero. I am a human being.
I am not a genius. I am a hard worker.
I am not a perfectionist. I am a striver.
I am not a conformist. I am an individual.
I am not a follower. I am a leader.
I am not a victim of circumstances. I am a creator of my own destiny.
I am not a slave to my emotions. I am their master.
I am not a prisoner of my past. I am a architect of my future.
I am not a product of my environment. I am a force of nature.
I am not a pawn in someone else's game. I am the queen of my own.
Contemporaries of Sylvia Plath
Other Literatures born within 50 years of Sylvia Plath (1932–1963).