Poetry Quote by Sylvia Plath — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“How can I tell Bob that my happiness streams from having wrenched a piece out of my life, a piece of hurt and beauty, and transformed it to typewritten words on paper? How can he know I am justifying my life, my keen emotions, my feeling, by turning it into print?”

“I didn’t want any flowers, I only wanted”

“Dying”

“The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.”

“The moon is no door. It is a face in its own right,”

“The night sky is only a sort of carbon paper,”

“the worst thing," he told me,”

“I like the lady horses best,”

“Consider the difference between the first and third person in poetry [...] It's like the difference between looking at a person and looking through their eyes.”

“She was a Phantom of delight”

“Now a promise made is a debt unpaid,”

“But for their cries,”