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Quotes from The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath — Sylvia Plath

1932–1963 United States

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11 quotes

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

The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath (2000)

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

The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath (2000)

I talk to God but the sky is empty.

The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath (2000)

I must get back my soul from you; I am killing my flesh without it.

The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath (2000)

I am made, crudely, for success.

The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath (2000)

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

The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath (2000)

The abstract kills, the concrete saves.

The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath (2000)

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.

The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath (2000)

If I didn't think, I'd be much happier; if I didn't have any sex organs, I wouldn't waver on the brink of nervous emotion and tears all the time.

The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath (2000)

With me, the present is forever, and forever is always shifting, flowing, melting. This second is life. And when it is gone it is dead. But you can't start over with each new second. You have to judge by what is dead. It's like quicksand... hopeless from the start.

The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath (2000)

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.

The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath (2000)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Sylvia Plath (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.