Best Sylvia Plath Quotes to Inspire, Uplift & Motivate You Every Day

“Not easy to state the change you made.”

“The thought that I might kill myself formed in my mind coolly as a tree or a flower.”

“[Short Talk on Sylvia Plath] Did you see her mother on television? She said plain, burned things. She said I thought it an excellent poem but it hurt me. She did not say jungle fear. She did not say jungle hatred wild jungle weeping chop it back chop it. She said self-government she said end of the road. She did not say humming in the middle of the air what you came for chop.”

“I’m so pathetically intense. I just can’t be any other way.”

“Writing, then, was a substitute for myself: if you don't love me, love my writing & love me for my writing. It is also much more: a way of ordering and reordering the chaos of experience.”