Sylvia Plath Quotes

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	Quote	Author	Category
How we need another...	How we need another soul to cling to, another body to keep us warm. To rest and trust; to give your soul in confidence: I need this, I need someone to pour myself into. Copy	Sylvia Plath	Love
I felt my lungs...	I felt my lungs inflate with the onrush of scenery—air, mountains, trees, people. I thought, "This is what it is to be happy. Copy	Sylvia Plath	Happiness Nature
I have never found...	I have never found anybody who could stand to accept the daily demonstrative love I feel in me, and give back as good as I give. Copy	Sylvia Plath	Love
I have the choice...	I have the choice of being constantly active and happy or introspectively passive and sad. Copy	Sylvia Plath	Sad
I looked on my...	I looked on my stomach and saw Frieda Rebecca, white as flour with the cream that covers new babies, funny little dark squiggles of hair plastered over her head, with big, dark-blue eyes. Copy	Sylvia Plath	Funny
In London the day...	In London the day after Christmas (Boxing Day), it began to snow: my first snow in England. For five years, I had been tactfully asking, 'Do you ever have snow at all?' as I steeled myself to the six months of wet, tepid gray that make up an English winter. 'Ooo, I do remember snow,' was the usual reply, 'when I were a lad.' Copy	Sylvia Plath	Christmas
Is anyone anywhere happy?...	Is anyone anywhere happy? Copy	Sylvia Plath	Happiness Happy
It is as if...	It is as if my life were magically run by two electric currents: joyous positive and despairing negative - whichever is running at the moment dominates my life, floods it. Copy	Sylvia Plath	Positive
My mother's face floated...	My mother's face floated to mind, a pale, reproachful moon, at her last and first visit to the asylum since my twentieth birthday. A daughter in an asylum! I had done that to her. Still, she had obviously decided to forgive me. Copy	Sylvia Plath	Mother's Day Mom Birthday
Yes, I was infatuated...	Yes, I was infatuated with you: I am still. No one has ever heightened such a keen capacity of physical sensation in me. I cut you out because I couldn't stand being a passing fancy. Before I give my body, I must give my thoughts, my mind, my dreams. And you weren't having any of those. Copy	Sylvia Plath	Love