Sylvia Plath
Sylvia Plath
Sylvia Plathwas one of the most renowned and influential poets, novelists, and short story writers of the 20th century. Born in Boston, Massachusetts, she studied at Smith College and Newnham College at the University of Cambridge before receiving acclaim as a poet and writer. She was married to fellow poet Ted Hughes from 1956 until they separated in September of 1962. They lived together in the United States and then the United Kingdom and had two children, Frieda and Nicholas...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth27 October 1932
CountryUnited States of America
One soul passes through the other, frail as smokeAnd utterly ignorant of the way it took.
...I still expected to see Doreen's body lying there in the pool of vomit like an ugly, concrete testimony to my own dirty nature.- The Bell Jar
I woke to the sound of rain.
You've only got so long to live.
I have the one person I could ever love in this world. Now I must work to be a person worthy of that.
O heart, such disorganization!
I'm doped and thick from my last sleeping pill.
I have suffered the atrocity of sunsets.
Is it the sea you hear in me? Its dissatisfactions? Or the voice of nothing, that was your madness? Love is a shadow. How you lie and cry after it.
I have taken a pill to kill The thin Papery feeling.
There is a charge For the eyeing of my scars, there is a charge For the hearing of my heart - It really goes. And there is a charge, a very large charge, For a word or a touch Or a bit of blood Or a piece of my hair or my clothes.
A ring of gold with the sun in it? Lies. Lies and a grief.
They had to call and call And pick the worms off me like sticky pearls.
O love, how did you get here? --Nick and the Candlestick