Perfection is terrible; it cannot have children.

- Sylvia Plath

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

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

What I want back is what I was.

- Sylvia Plath

Wear your heart on your skin in this life.

- Sylvia Plath

I have a visual imagination.

- Sylvia Plath

If I have not the power to put myself in the place of other people, but must be continually burrowing inward, I shall never be the magnanimous creative person I wish to be. Yet I am hypnotized by the workings of the individual, alone, and am continually using myself as a specimen.

- Sylvia Plath

I talk to God but the sky is empty.

- Sylvia Plath

I think my poems immediately come out of the sensuous and emotional experiences I have.

- Sylvia Plath

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

Every woman adores a Fascist.

- Sylvia Plath

Nothing stinks like a pile of unpublished writing.

- Sylvia Plath

The blood jet is poetry and there is no stopping it.

- Sylvia Plath

I have the choice of being constantly active and happy or introspectively passive and sad.

- Sylvia Plath

Widow. The word consumes itself.

- Sylvia Plath

I want Books and Babies and Beef stews.

- Sylvia Plath

I've begun to think like a Jew, to feel like a Jew.

- Sylvia Plath

Poetry at its best can do you a lot of harm.

- Sylvia Plath

If you expect nothing from anybody, you're never disappointed.

- Sylvia Plath

Kiss me and you will see how important I am.

- Sylvia Plath