Letters Home Quotes

“I write only because
There is a voice within me
That will not be still”
― Sylvia Plath, Letters Home

“How frail the human heart must be―a mirrored pool of thought.”
― Sylvia Plath, Letters Home

“I am afraid of getting older. I am afraid of getting married. Spare me from cooking three meals a day—spare me from the relentless cage of routine and rote. I want to be free. (...) I want, I think, to be omniscient… I think I would like to call myself "The girl who wanted to be God." Yet if I were not in this body, where would I be—perhaps I am destined to be classified and qualified. But, oh, I cry out against it. I am I—I am powerful—but to what extent? I am I.”
― Sylvia Plath, Letters Home

“…I am glad the rain is coming down hard. It’s the way I feel inside.”
― Sylvia Plath, Letters Home

“I am afraid of getting older. I am afraid of getting married. Spare me from cooking three meals a day, spare me from the relentless cage of routine and rote. I want to be free. I want, I think, to be omniscient.”
― Sylvia Plath, Letters Home

“...for I realized how narrow my world had been and that self-education could be and should be an exciting life-long adventure.”
― Aurelia Schober Plath, Letters Home

“Your security and love of life don't depend on the presence of another, but only on yourself, your chosen work, and your developing identity. Then you can safely choose to enrich your life by marrying another person, and not, as e e cummings says, until.”
― Sylvia Plath, Letters Home

“...Life happens so hard and fast I sometimes wonder who is me...”
― Sylvia Plath, Letters Home

“I felt very happy. To think that I didn't have to torture myself sitting in a smoke-filled room with a painted party smile, watching my date get drunk”
― Sylvia Plath, Letters Home

“Don't talk to me about the world needing cheerful stuff! What the person out of Belsen — physical or psychological — wants is nobody saying the birdies still go tweet-tweet, but the full knowledge that somebody else has been there and knows the worst, just what it is like.”
― Sylvia Plath, Letters Home

“Writing sharpens life; life enriches writing.”
― Sylvia Plath, Letters Home

“I would rather be a mediocre writer than a bad actress.”
― Sylvia Plath, Letters Home

“The consequences of love affairs would stop me from my independent freedom of creative activity, and I don't intend to be stopped.”
― Sylvia Plath, Letters Home

“The thing about writing is not to talk, but to do it; no matter how bad or even mediocre it is, the process and production is the thing, not the sitting and theorizing about how one should write ideally, or how well one could write if one really wanted to or had the time. As Mr. Kazin told me: 'You don't write to support yourself; you work to support your writing.”
― Sylvia Plath, Letters Home

“Between Sylvia and me there existed as between my own mother and me - a sort of psychic osmosis which, at times, was very wonderful and comforting; at other times an unwelcome invasion of privacy (words from Aurelia Plath from the Introduction)”
― Sylvia Plath, Letters Home

“So come, and slowly we will walk through green gardens and marvel at this strange and sweet world.”
― Sylvia Plath, Letters Home

“I want to be where no possessions remind me of the past and by the sea, which is for me the great healer.”
― Sylvia Plath, Letters Home

“..it just seems that I am running on a purposeless treadmill, behind and paralyzed in science, dreading every day of the horrible year ahead when I should be reveling in my major.”
― Sylvia Plath, Letters Home

“I hate it, find it hideous, loathsome. I have built it up to a devouring, malicious monster. I am letting it ruin my whole life. My reason is leaving me, and I want to get out of this.”
― Sylvia Plath, Letters Home

“Nigdy nie zaznałam tak całkowitego odprężenia i wyzwolenia z przymusu "ubierania twarzy" na spotkanie innej twarzy.”
― Sylvia Plath, Letters Home

“I teraz, gdy zaczynasz na nowo oddychać, spada na Ciebie ta strasznie długa, nie kończąca się udręka, jak gdyby los uważał, iż nie może Cię tak łatwo i szybko uwolnić od wyczerpującej daniny troski i miłości.”
― Sylvia Plath, Letters Home

“Po to, by umieć żyć z drugą osobą trzeba, moim zdaniem, nauczyć się wpierw żyć twórczo samemu.”
― Sylvia Plath, Letters Home

“Mam prawo się troszczyć, a to co innego, niż martwić się.”
― Sylvia Plath, Letters Home

“Myślę, że najtrudniej żyć pełnią teraźniejszości i nie pozwolić, aby obawa o przyszłości albo żal z powodu minionych błędów zmąciły ją lub zniszczyły.”
― Sylvia Plath, Letters Home

“Co jakiś czas przychodzi taki okres jak w tym tygodniu, kiedy drobne przykrości urastają do ogromnych rozmiarów i wszystko traci sens”
― Sylvia Plath, Letters Home

“Ile by człowiekowi nie zabrano, zawsze pozostanie mu coś, na czym może budować od nowa.”
― Sylvia Plath, Letters Home

“Uczucia jakby we mnie zamarły. Cały wysiłek kieruję na to, by utrzymać się na powierzchni, a emocje na razie jakby zanikły czy też przeszły w stan uśpienia.”
― Sylvia Plath, Letters Home

“Widzę, że i ty masz w swym mózgu obóz koncentracyjny.”
― Sylvia Plath, Letters Home

“Z dojrzałym życiem wiąże się w moim odczuciu nieustanna walka o to, by akceptować nieuchronność tragedii i sprzeczności, i nie uciekać się do fałszywie prostych rozwiązań, wykluczających zbyt smutne powikłania.”
― Sylvia Plath, Letters Home

“W ten sposób nauczyłam się bardzo wielu rzeczy i nawet wtedy, gdy przerażają mnie albo przyprawiają o mdłości, niczego po sobie nie pokazuję i zawsze udaję, że dokładnie tak to sobie wyobrażałam.”
― Sylvia Plath, Letters Home