Sylvia Plath Quotes

“I don’t like this life; but I do it. Like a good girl.”
― Sylvia Plath, Sylvia Plath: Her Drawings

“I write and think and study perfectly when with him; apart, I’m split and only can work properly in brief, stoic spells. . . .”
― Sylvia Plath, Sylvia Plath: Drawings: An Art Portfolio from Her Marriage to Ted Hughes—Cambridge, Paris, and Spain, 1955-1957

“it gives me such a sense of peace to draw; more than prayer, walks, anything.”
― Sylvia Plath, Sylvia Plath: Drawings: An Art Portfolio from Her Marriage to Ted Hughes—Cambridge, Paris, and Spain, 1955-1957

“I write and think and study perfectly when with him; apart, I’m split and only can work properly in brief, stoic spells.”
― Sylvia Plath, Sylvia Plath: Her Drawings

“When Ted and I begin living together we shall become a team better than Mr. and Mrs. Yeats—he being a competent astrologist, reading horoscopes, and me being a tarot-pack reader, and, when we have enough money, a crystal-gazer.”
― Sylvia Plath, Sylvia Plath: Her Drawings

“When Ted and I begin living together we shall become a team better than Mr. and Mrs. Yeats”
― Sylvia Plath, Sylvia Plath: Drawings: An Art Portfolio from Her Marriage to Ted Hughes—Cambridge, Paris, and Spain, 1955-1957

“I really love this city above any I’ve ever been in; it is dear and graceful and elegant and what one makes it.”
― Sylvia Plath, Sylvia Plath: Drawings: An Art Portfolio from Her Marriage to Ted Hughes—Cambridge, Paris, and Spain, 1955-1957

“feel like some eon-old matriarch who has been through ice age and 40-day flood;”
― Sylvia Plath, Sylvia Plath: Drawings: An Art Portfolio from Her Marriage to Ted Hughes—Cambridge, Paris, and Spain, 1955-1957

“It is as if, by concentrating on the “inscape”, as Hopkins says, of leaf and plant and animal, I can know the world a new and special way; and make up my own versions of it.”
― Sylvia Plath, Sylvia Plath: Drawings: An Art Portfolio from Her Marriage to Ted Hughes—Cambridge, Paris, and Spain, 1955-1957

“I feel, in my singular passions and furies, that I become a gargoyle, and that people will point. One thing, I certainly prefer being alone; I shun people like poison; I simply don’t want them; I sit and answer the countless questions of the new girls at table; I find myself being funny and making them laugh with descriptions of people & events, and wonder that I can operate so mechanically, with such little feeling, still retaining the habits of a sane person, without being discovered.”
― Sylvia Plath, Sylvia Plath: Drawings: An Art Portfolio from Her Marriage to Ted Hughes—Cambridge, Paris, and Spain, 1955-1957

“ache and ache to return to my proper place, which is curled up right there, sheltered and cherished”
― Sylvia Plath, Sylvia Plath: Drawings: An Art Portfolio from Her Marriage to Ted Hughes—Cambridge, Paris, and Spain, 1955-1957

“I beamed benevolently at them over my third atheistic cup of coffee and ate my existentialist egg;”
― Sylvia Plath, Sylvia Plath: Drawings: An Art Portfolio from Her Marriage to Ted Hughes—Cambridge, Paris, and Spain, 1955-1957

“my inspiration is paintings and not music when I go to some other art form . . . I see these things very clearly.”
― Sylvia Plath, Sylvia Plath: Drawings: An Art Portfolio from Her Marriage to Ted Hughes—Cambridge, Paris, and Spain, 1955-1957

“I’ve discovered my deepest source of inspiration, which is art: the art of the primitives like Henri Rousseau, Gauguin, Paul Klee, and De Chirico.”
― Sylvia Plath, Sylvia Plath: Drawings: An Art Portfolio from Her Marriage to Ted Hughes—Cambridge, Paris, and Spain, 1955-1957

“I beamed benevolently at them over my third atheistic cup of coffee and ate my existentialist egg”
― Sylvia Plath, Sylvia Plath: Her Drawings