I am so hungry for a big smashing creative burgeoning burdened love.
Sylvia Plath
Yearning Love, Creative Passion, Emotional Hunger, Love, Passion, Hunger
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More Sylvia Plath Quotes
“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 may never be happy, but tonight I am content.” Sylvia Plath
Contentment, Fleeting Happiness, Emotional State, Self-acceptance, Simplicity, Present Moment
Sylvia Plath Contentment, Fleeting Happiness, Emotional State, Self-acceptance, Simplicity, Present Moment“Piece by piece, I fed my wardrobe to the night wind, and flutteringly, like a loved one’s ashes, the gray scraps were ferried off, to settle here, there, exactly where I would never know, in the dark heart of New York.” Sylvia Plath
Letting Go, Memories, Loss, Mystery, City, Fragments
Sylvia Plath Letting Go, Memories, Loss, Mystery, City, Fragments“I’m sarcastic, skeptical, and sometimes callous because I’m still afraid, deep down, of letting myself be hurt.” Sylvia Plath
Defensive Walls, Emotional Fear, Inner Vulnerability, Fear, Vulnerability, Walls
Sylvia Plath Defensive Walls, Emotional Fear, Inner Vulnerability, Fear, Vulnerability, Walls“And I, stepping from this skin Of old bandages, boredoms, old faces Step to you from the black car of Lethe, Pure as a baby.” Sylvia Plath
Fresh Beginnings, Mythical Lethe, Innocent Transformation, Lethe, Transformation, Innocence
Sylvia Plath Fresh Beginnings, Mythical Lethe, Innocent Transformation, Lethe, Transformation, Innocence“How frail the human heart must be — a mirrored pool of thought.” Sylvia Plath
Human Frailty, Thought Pool, Fragile Emotions, Heart, Frailty, Thought
Sylvia Plath Human Frailty, Thought Pool, Fragile Emotions, Heart, Frailty, Thought“I’ve got to have something. I want to stop it all, the whole monumental grotesque joke, before it’s too late. But writing poems and letters doesn’t seem to do much good.” Sylvia Plath
Creativity As Refuge, Emotional Despair, Existential Crisis, Personal Expression, Escape, Catharsis
Sylvia Plath Creativity As Refuge, Emotional Despair, Existential Crisis, Personal Expression, Escape, Catharsis“I made a point of eating so fast I never kept the other people waiting who generally ordered only chef's salad and grapefruit juice because they were trying to reduce. Almost everybody I met in New York was trying to reduce.” Sylvia Plath
Stress, Superficiality, Busyness, Self-doubt, Identity, Modern Culture
Sylvia Plath Stress, Superficiality, Busyness, Self-doubt, Identity, Modern Culture“So many people are shut up tight inside themselves like boxes, yet they would open up, unfolding quite wonderfully, if only you were interested in them.” Sylvia Plath
Emotional Openness, Hidden Potential, Personal Connection, Self-discovery, Social Barriers, Authenticity
Sylvia Plath Emotional Openness, Hidden Potential, Personal Connection, Self-discovery, Social Barriers, Authenticity“I am dead to them, even though I once flowered.” Sylvia Plath
Loss, Disconnection, Identity, Fading, Forgotten, Beauty
Sylvia Plath Loss, Disconnection, Identity, Fading, Forgotten, Beauty“Doreen had intuition. Everything she said was like a secret voice speaking straight out of my own bones.” Sylvia Plath
Intuitive Voice, Secret Connection, Bone Truths, Intuition, Voice, Secret
Sylvia Plath Intuitive Voice, Secret Connection, Bone Truths, Intuition, Voice, Secret“I began to see why woman-haters could make such fools of women. Woman-haters were like gods: invulnerable and chock full of power. They descended, and then they disappeared. You could never catch one.” Sylvia Plath
Woman Haters, Invulnerable Gods, Power Dynamics, Misogyny, Deception, Power
Sylvia Plath Woman Haters, Invulnerable Gods, Power Dynamics, Misogyny, Deception, Power“Death may whiten in sun or out of it.” Sylvia Plath
Mortality, Acceptance, Life, Duality, Existence, Transformation
Sylvia Plath Mortality, Acceptance, Life, Duality, Existence, Transformation“There I went again, building up a glamorous picture of a man who would love me passionately the minute he met me, and all out of a few prosy nothings.” Sylvia Plath
Illusion, Expectations, Fantasy, Vulnerability, Emotion, Anticipation
Sylvia Plath Illusion, Expectations, Fantasy, Vulnerability, Emotion, Anticipation“The poet made eating salad with your fingers seem to be the only natural and sensible thing to do.” Sylvia Plath
Creativity, Freedom, Simplicity, Perspective, Emotion, Expression
Sylvia Plath Creativity, Freedom, Simplicity, Perspective, Emotion, Expression“God, it was good to let go, let the tight mask fall off, and the bewildered, chaotic fragments pour out. It was the purge, the catharsis.” Sylvia Plath
Emotional Release, Self-liberation, Chaos Cleansing, Cathartic Experience, Vulnerability, Personal Freedom
Sylvia Plath Emotional Release, Self-liberation, Chaos Cleansing, Cathartic Experience, Vulnerability, Personal Freedom“I wanted to be where nobody I knew could ever come.” Sylvia Plath
Desired Solitude, New Horizons, Escaping Familiarity, Solitude, Escape, New
Sylvia Plath Desired Solitude, New Horizons, Escaping Familiarity, Solitude, Escape, New“I crawled back into bed and pulled the sheet over my head. But even that didn’t shut out the light, so I buried my head under the darkness of the pillow and pretended it was night. I couldn’t see the point of getting up. I had nothing to look forward to.” Sylvia Plath
Despair, Isolation, Numbness, Helplessness, Darkness, Withdrawal
Sylvia Plath Despair, Isolation, Numbness, Helplessness, Darkness, Withdrawal