# Sylvia Plath

- Quotes: 43
- Author page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/sylvia-plath

## Books

- [The Bell Jar](https://www.leafyquotes.com/sylvia-plath/the-bell-jar.md) — 29 quotes
- [The Colossus](https://www.leafyquotes.com/sylvia-plath/the-colossus.md) — 1 quote
- [The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath](https://www.leafyquotes.com/sylvia-plath/the-unabridged-journals-of-sylvia-plath.md) — 13 quotes

## Recently added quotes

> I am made, crudely, for success.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/sylvia-plath/the-unabridged-journals-of-sylvia-plath/i-am-made.md)

> The abstract kills, the concrete saves.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/sylvia-plath/the-unabridged-journals-of-sylvia-plath/the-abstract-kills.md)

> There ought, I thought, to be a ritual for being born twice - patched, retreaded and approved for the road.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/sylvia-plath/the-bell-jar/there-ought-i-thought.md)

> How did I know that someday — at college, in Europe, somewhere, anywhere — the bell jar, with its stifling distortions, wouldn’t descend again?

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> Frustrated? Yes. Why? Because it is impossible for me to be God — or the universal woman-and-man — or anything much. I am what I feel and think and do. I want to express my being as fully as I can because I somewhere picked up the idea that I could justify my being alive that way.

p. 158 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/sylvia-plath/the-unabridged-journals-of-sylvia-plath/frustrated-yes-why.md)

> I desire the things which will destroy me in the end.

p. 63 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/sylvia-plath/the-unabridged-journals-of-sylvia-plath/i-desire-the.md)

> It is raining. I am tempted to write a poem. But I remember what it said on one rejection slip: After a heavy rainfall, poems titled RAIN pour in from across the nation.

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> Ironically, Henry James' biography comforts me & I long to make known to him his posthumous reputation — he wrote, in pain, gave all his life (which is more than I could think of doing — I have Ted, will have children — but few friends) & the critics insulted & mocked him, readers didn't read him.

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> I talk to God but the sky is empty.

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> I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart: I am, I am, I am.

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> The blood of love welled up in my heart with a slow pain.

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> Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously near to wanting nothing.

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