Sylvia Plath Quotes About Inspirational
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The one man in the room who was as big as his poems, huge, with hulk and dynamic chunks of words.
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You ask me why I spend my life writing? Do I find entertainment? Is it worthwhile? Above all, does it pay? If not, then, is there a reason?... I write only because there is a voice within me. That will not be still.
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Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously close to wanting nothing.
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I began to see why woman-haters could make such fools of women. Woman-haters were like gods: invulnerable and chock full of power. They descended, and then they disappeared. You could never catch one.
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Why the hell are we conditioned into the smooth strawberry-and-cream Mother-Goose-world, Alice-in-Wonderland fable, only to be broken on the wheel as we grow older and become aware of ourselves as individuals with a dull responsibility in life?
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If they substituted the word 'Lust' for 'Love' in the popular songs it would come nearer the truth.
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I must bridge the gap between adolescent glitter and mature glow.
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There is so much hurt in this game of searching for a mate, of testing, trying. And you realize suddenly that you forgot it was a game, and turn away in tears.
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The artist's life nourishes itself on the particular, the concrete.
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I am so hungry for a big smashing creative burgeoning burdened love.
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Some things are hard to write about. After something happens to you, you go to write it down, and either you over dramatize it, or underplay it, exaggerate the wrong parts or ignore the important ones. At any rate, you never write it quite the way you want to.
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There must be quite a few things that a hot bath won't cure, but I don't know many of them.
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I may never be happy, but tonight I am content.
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Read widely of others' experiences, even if it'd be more comfortable to snuggle back in the comforting cotton-wool of blissful ignorance.
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I have never found anybody who could stand to accept the daily demonstrative love I feel in me, and give back as good as I give.
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You have to be able to make a real creative life for Yourself, before you can expect anyone Else to provide one ready-made for you.
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The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.
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And there's the fallacy of existence: the idea that one could be happy forever and age with a given situation or series of accomplishments.
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Do we always grind through the present, doomed to throw a gold haze of fond retrospect over the past?
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I took a deep breath and listened to the old bray of my heart. I am. I am. I am.
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