Sylvia Plath Quotes

American - Poet | October 27, 1932 - February 11, 1963

The blood jet is poetry and there is no stopping it.

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PoetryBloodJetStopping

There is something suspect, especially in America, about people who don't have ten-year plans for a career or at least a regular job.

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JobPeopleAmericaCareerPlansWho

I think that personal experience is very important, but certainly it shouldn't be a kind of shut-box and mirror-looking, narcissistic experience. I believe it should be relevant, and relevant to the larger things, the bigger things, such as Hiroshima and Dachau and so on.

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ExperienceBelieveThinkPersonal

There is an increasing market for mental hospital stuff. I am a fool if I don't relive it, recreate it.

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FoolI AmHospitalMentalMarketAm

I think my poems immediately come out of the sensuous and emotional experiences I have.

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ThinkEmotionalOutExperiencesCome

Since my woman's world is perceived greatly through the emotions and the senses, I treat it that way in my writing - and am often overweighted with heavy descriptive passages and a kaleidoscope of similes.

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WomanWritingWorldTreatEmotions

I talk to God but the sky is empty.

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GodSkyTalkEmpty

Nothing stinks like a pile of unpublished writing.

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WritingNothingLikePileStinks

I am too pure for you or anyone.

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I AmYouPureTooAmAnyone

One should be able to control and manipulate experiences with an informed and intelligent mind.

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MindControlIntelligentInformed

When I was learning to creep, my mother set me down on the beach to see what I thought of it. I crawled straight for the coming wave and was just through the wall of green when she caught my heels.

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LearningMotherBeachMeGreenWave

Arrogant, I think I have written lines which qualify me to be The Poetess of America (as Ted will be The Poet of England and her dominions).

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MeThinkAmericaWillArrogantPoet

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