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

“Not easy to state the change you made.”

“I am terrified by this dark thing”

“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?”

“There is nothing like puking with somebody to make you into old friends.”

“I told him I believed in hell, and that certain people, like me, had to live in hell before they died, to make up for missing out on it after death, since they didn't believe in life after death, and what each person believed happened to him when he died.”

“I lean to you, numb as a fossil. Tell me I'm here.”

“When composing a verse let there not be a hair's breath separating your mind from what you write; composition of a poem must be done in an instant, like a woodcutter felling a huge tree or a swordsman leaping at a dangerous enemy.”

“Say this city has ten million souls,”

“Fear not the waking world, my mortal,”

“لا تحاول أن تقلص أوراق الشجر المتساقطة، لأن عمرك الخريف كله.”

“The first year was like icing. Then the cake started to show through …”

“Wildflowers can't be controlled, and neither can the girl with a soul boundless as the sky, and a spirit as free and wild as the ocean.”