Excellent teachers showered on to us like meteors: Biology teachers holding up human brains, English teachers inspiring us with a personal ideological fierceness about Tolstoy and Plato, Art teachers leading us through the slums of Boston, then back to the easel to hurl public school gouache with social awareness and fury.
Sylvia Plath
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Sylvia Plath’s Quotes On Topics
Emotional Release | Self-Reflection | Self-disconnection | Evolving Self | Expression Focus | Work Focus | Forgiveness | Finality | Beauty In Pain | Emotional Rebirth | Growth Suffering | Incompletion | Desperate Love | Emotional Regret | Peaceful Moments | Emotional Extremes | Identity Doubts | Sickness | Papery Feeling | Constant Insanity | More
More Sylvia Plath Quotes
“I am learning peacefulness, lying by myself quietly, as the light lies on these white walls, this bed, these hands. I am nobody; I have nothing to do with explosions.” Sylvia Plath
Inner Peace, Solitude, Emotional Stillness, Self-identity, Simplicity, Contentment
Sylvia Plath Inner Peace, Solitude, Emotional Stillness, Self-identity, Simplicity, Contentment“The truth comes to me. The truth loves me.” Sylvia Plath
Truth Arrival, Personal Revelation, Inner Peace, Honesty, Understanding, Reality
Sylvia Plath Truth Arrival, Personal Revelation, Inner Peace, Honesty, Understanding, Reality“As from a star I saw, coldly and soberly, the separateness of everything. I felt the wall of my skin; I am I. That stone is a stone. My beautiful fusion with the things of this world was over.” Sylvia Plath
Inner Realization, Physical Separateness, World Fusion, Skin, Stone, Star
Sylvia Plath Inner Realization, Physical Separateness, World Fusion, Skin, Stone, Star“I smile, now, thinking: we all like to think we are important enough to need psychiatrists.” Sylvia Plath
Psychiatric Importance, Emotional Humor, Reflective Smiles, Importance, Humor, Smiles
Sylvia Plath Psychiatric Importance, Emotional Humor, Reflective Smiles, Importance, Humor, Smiles“Though it’s quite clear all your beauty, all your wit, is a gift, my dear, from me.” Sylvia Plath
Personal Charm, Witty Compliment, Endearing Humor, Beauty, Wit, Gift
Sylvia Plath Personal Charm, Witty Compliment, Endearing Humor, Beauty, Wit, Gift“Nothing stinks like a pile of unpublished writing.” Sylvia Plath
Unpublished Writing, Stinking Work, Creative Frustration, Writing, Pile, Work
Sylvia Plath Unpublished Writing, Stinking Work, Creative Frustration, Writing, Pile, Work“What did my fingers do before they held him? What did my heart do, with its love? I have never seen a thing so clear.” Sylvia Plath
Love, Clarity, Emotional Clarity, Past Reflection, Connection, Self-awareness
Sylvia Plath Love, Clarity, Emotional Clarity, Past Reflection, Connection, Self-awareness“Every woman adores a Fascist.” Sylvia Plath
Power, Control, Influence, Rebellion, Politics, Conflict
Sylvia Plath Power, Control, Influence, Rebellion, Politics, Conflict“Buddy was very proud of his perfect health and was always telling me it was psychosomatic when my sinuses blocked up and I couldn’t breathe. I thought this an odd attitude for a doctor to have and perhaps he should study to be a psychiatrist instead.” Sylvia Plath
Health Judgment, Psychosomatic Issues, Professional Irony, Health, Doctor, Irony
Sylvia Plath Health Judgment, Psychosomatic Issues, Professional Irony, Health, Doctor, Irony“I never feel so much myself as when I’m in a hot bath.” Sylvia Plath
Relaxation, Comfort, Solitude, Self-care, Reflection, Serenity
Sylvia Plath Relaxation, Comfort, Solitude, Self-care, Reflection, Serenity“Winter is for women The woman still at her knitting, At the cradle of Spanish walnut, Her body a bulb in the cold and too dumb to think.” Sylvia Plath
Winter Women, Spanish Walnut, Knitting Souls, Season, Endurance, Strength
Sylvia Plath Winter Women, Spanish Walnut, Knitting Souls, Season, Endurance, Strength“I love people. Everybody. I love them, I think, as a stamp collector loves his collection. Every story, every incident, every bit of conversation is raw material for me.” Sylvia Plath
Human Stories, Collecting Moments, Raw Material, People, Love, Stories
Sylvia Plath Human Stories, Collecting Moments, Raw Material, People, Love, Stories“To the person in the bell jar, blank and stopped as a dead baby, the world itself is the bad dream.” Sylvia Plath
Bell Jar, Bad Dream, Stagnant Life, Dream, Life, World
Sylvia Plath Bell Jar, Bad Dream, Stagnant Life, Dream, Life, World“I want to live and feel all the shades, tones, and variations of mental and physical experience possible in my life. And I am horribly limited.” Sylvia Plath
Life Exploration, Limited Experiences, Mental Shades, Life, Experience, Shades
Sylvia Plath Life Exploration, Limited Experiences, Mental Shades, Life, Experience, Shades“My flesh winced, in cowardice, from such a death.” Sylvia Plath
Cowardice Death, Wincing Flesh, Unbearable Fear, Mortality Dread, Fleeting Life, Soul Torment
Sylvia Plath Cowardice Death, Wincing Flesh, Unbearable Fear, Mortality Dread, Fleeting Life, Soul Torment“Let me sit in a flowerpot, The spiders won’t notice. My heart is a stopped geranium.” Sylvia Plath
Isolation, Stillness, Melancholy, Fragility, Hidden, Quiet
Sylvia Plath Isolation, Stillness, Melancholy, Fragility, Hidden, Quiet“I am flushed and warm. I think I may be enormous, I am so stupidly happy, My wellingtons Squelching and squelching through the beautiful red.” Sylvia Plath
Childlike Joy, Pure Happiness, Vibrant Imagery, Happiness, Joy, Imagery
Sylvia Plath Childlike Joy, Pure Happiness, Vibrant Imagery, Happiness, Joy, Imagery“I have a visual imagination.” Sylvia Plath
Visual Imagination, Creative Vision, Artistic Perception, Imagination, Vision, Creative
Sylvia Plath Visual Imagination, Creative Vision, Artistic Perception, Imagination, Vision, Creative