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
Sometimes I feel like I'm not solid. I'm hollow. There's nothing behind my eyes. I'm a negative of a person. All I want is blackness, blackness and silence.
Don't let the wicked city get you down.
The silence depressed me. It wasn't the silence of silence. It was my own silence.
If only I knew what I wanted I could try to see about getting it.
So learn about life. Cut yourself a big slice with the silver server, a big slice of pie. Open your eyes. Let life happen.
There is more than one good way to drown.
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 talk to God but the sky is empty.
I was supposed to be having the time of my life.
because wherever I sat—on the deck of a ship or at a street café in Paris or Bangkok—I would be sitting under the same glass bell jar, stewing in my own sour air.
I am too pure for you or anyone.
Nothing stinks like a pile of unpublished writing.
I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead; I lift my eyes and all is born again.
We should meet in another life, we should meet in air, me and you.