More quotes by Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

"I wonder why I don't go to bed and go to sleep. But then it would be tomorrow, so I decide that no matter how tired, no matter how incoherent I am, I can skip on hour more of sleep and live."
— Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath Read More
"let me live, love, and say it well in good sentences"
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"I want to write because I have the urge to excel in one medium of translation and expression of life. I can't be satisfied with the colossal job of merely living. Oh, no, I must order life in sonnets and sestinas and provide a verbal reflector for my 60-watt lighted head."
— Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath Read More
"But writing poems and letters doesn't seem to do much good."
— Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath Read More
"I have the choice of being constantly active and happy or introspectively passive and sad. Or I can go mad by ricocheting in between."
— Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath Read More