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
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.
The box is only temporary.
The slime of all my yesterdays rots in the hollow of my skull.
What did my arms do before they held you?
I must get my soul back from you; I am killing my flesh without it.
Is there no way out of the mind?
I must be lean & write & make worlds beside this to live in.
I want so obviously, so desperately to be loved, and to be capable of love.
Clouds pass and disperse. Are those the faces of love, those pale irretrievables? Is it for such I agitate my heart?
If I didn't think, I'd be much happier; if I didn't have any sex organs, I wouldn't waver on the brink of nervous emotion and tears all the time.
Before I give my body, I must give my thoughts, my mind, my dreams.
Oh what a poet I will flay myself into.
I dreamed that you bewitched me into bed And sung me moon-struck, kissed me quite insane. (I think I made you up inside my head.)