Tag: Sylvia Plath

“How much of my brain is willfully my own? How much is not a rubber stamp of what I have read and heard and lived?”

– Sylvia Plath

“After something happens to you, you either over dramatize it or underplay it, exaggerate the wrong parts or ignore the important ones.”

– Sylvia Plath

“I am constructing my reality with unreal, otherworldly materials. It is almost poetic; this outstanding self-manipulation.”

– Sylvia Plath ‏

“There is a unique rightness and beauty to life which can be shared in openness with a human being who believes in the same basic principles.”

– Sylvia Plath ‏

“All I have ever touched or said to others becomes only the rehearsal for you, and preserved only for this.”

– Sylvia Plath ‏

“I had the impression it wasn’t night or day, but some lurid third interval that had suddenly slipped between them and would never end.”

– Sylvia Plath ‏

“I need not to be more with others, but to be more & more deeply, richly alone. Recreating worlds.”

– Sylvia Plath

“Your room is not your prison. You are.”

– Sylvia Plath