Sylvia Plath Quotes

“I deserve a year, two years, to live my own self into being.” Depressing”
― Linda Wagner-Martin, Sylvia Plath: A Biography

“I loved before I met him, a large, hulking, healthy Adam ... with a voice like the thunder of God — a singer, story-teller, lion and world-wanderer, a vagabond who will never stop. She”
― Linda Wagner-Martin, Sylvia Plath: A Biography

“If the heart was fragile, like a porcelain cup, and a great loss shattered it, all the time and kindness in the world couldn’t hide the ugly cracks. Once the precious liquid of love had seeped away, you were left dry. Dry and empty. Echoing”
― Linda Wagner-Martin, Sylvia Plath: A Biography

“Plath was a feminist, in a broad sense of the term: she never undervalued herself or her work. She insisted that she be recognized as the talented writer she was even while her children were infants and she was spending more time as a mother and a wife than as a writer.”
― Linda Wagner-Martin, Sylvia Plath: A Biography

“My ribs show. What have I eaten? /Lies and smiles.”
― Linda Wagner-Martin, Sylvia Plath: A Biography

“She had come to think of the poet as song-maker, not as scholar with her head”
― Linda Wagner-Martin, Sylvia Plath: A Biography

“feel on my tongue what I admire.” Despite”
― Linda Wagner-Martin, Sylvia Plath: A Biography

“What was hard was discovering the true life of the poem inside its technical scaffolding.”
― Linda Wagner-Martin, Sylvia Plath: A Biography

“The Writer and Poet is excusable only if he is Successful. Makes Money.” Within”
― Linda Wagner-Martin, Sylvia Plath: A Biography

“He is a breaker of things and people,”
― Linda Wagner-Martin, Sylvia Plath: A Biography

“finding their alter ego in each other — rebellious and isolated, strong and erotic and gifted.”
― Linda Wagner-Martin, Sylvia Plath: A Biography

“The image of identity we must daily fight to impress on the neutral, or hostile, world collapses inward: we feel crushed. Burdened”
― Linda Wagner-Martin, Sylvia Plath: A Biography

“I wasn’t anybody at all. And I began to get afraid that all at once maybe my eyes would break open like soap bubbles and everybody would see there wasn’t anything there, just a vile mess. And I was afraid that maybe the rot inside me would break out in sores and warts, screaming: ‘traitor, sinner, imposter.’” Part”
― Linda Wagner-Martin, Sylvia Plath: A Biography

“the misfits are the gifted.”
― Linda Wagner-Martin, Sylvia Plath: A Biography

“I need someone real, who will be right for me now, here, and soon. Until then I’m lost. I think I am mad at times.” Because”
― Linda Wagner-Martin, Sylvia Plath: A Biography

“The sense of dependence and the narcissism that were to mark, and sometimes ruin, Sylvia’s relationships in the future clearly originated in her childhood fear of abandonment.”
― Linda Wagner-Martin, Sylvia Plath: A Biography

“She was a child robbed of her beloved sea and shore,”
― Linda Wagner-Martin, Sylvia Plath: A Biography

“In the course of her life, her deepest friendships were with people with whom she could show a frankness that was often discouraged in “polite” society.”
― Linda Wagner-Martin, Sylvia Plath: A Biography