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.' - Sylvia Plath 1 Share Now -
I have the choice of being constantly active and happy or introspectively passive and sad. - Sylvia Plath 2 Share Now -
I saw the gooseflesh on my skin. I did not know what made it. I was not cold. Had a ghost passed over? No, it was the poetry. - Sylvia Plath 3 Share Now -
But life is long. And it is the long run that balances the short flare of interest and passion. - Sylvia Plath 4 Share Now -
What a man is is an arrow into the future, and what a woman is is the place the arrow shoots off from. - Sylvia Plath 5 Share Now -
Poetry, I feel, is a tyrannical discipline. You've got to go so far so fast in such a small space; you've got to burn away all the peripherals. - Sylvia Plath 6 Share Now -
I have felt great advances in my poetry, the main one being a growing victory over word nuances and a superfluity of adjectives. - Sylvia Plath 7 Share Now -
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. - Sylvia Plath 8 Share Now -
And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt. - Sylvia Plath 9 Share Now -
Everybody had to go to some college or other. A business college, a junior college, a state college, a secretarial college, an Ivy League college, a pig farmer's college. The book first, then the work. - Sylvia Plath 10 Share Now -
