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
Hour by hour, day by day, life becomes possible.
I know the bottom, she says. I know it with my great tap root: It is what you fear. I do not fear it: I have been there.
There is nothing like puking with somebody to make you into old friends.
Apparently, the most difficult feat for a Cambridge male is to accept a woman not merely as feeling, not merely as thinking, but as managing a complex, vital interweaving of both.
It is awful to want to go away and to want to go nowhere.
I am not cruel, only truthful.
If only I knew what I wanted I could try to see about getting it.
I may have made a straight A in physics, but I was panic-struck. Physics made me sick the whole time I learned it.
I am too pure for you or anyone.
Nothing stinks like a pile of unpublished writing.
We should meet in another life, we should meet in air, me and you.
The slime of all my yesterdays rots in the hollow of my skull.
I have to live my life, and it is the only one I’ll ever have.
Feel oddly barren. My sickness is when words draw in their horns and the physical world refuses to be ordered, recreated, arranged and selected. I am a victim of it then, not a master.