Quotes from Sylvia Plath

Immagino che sarò sempre molto vulnerabile, lievemente paranoica. Ma sono anche maledettamente robusta e resistente. E felice come una pasqua.

A Better Resurrection I have no wit, I have no words, no tears; My heart within me like a stone Is numbed too much for hopes or fears; Look right, look left, I dwell alone; A lift mine eyes, but dimmed with grief No everlasting hills I see; My life is like the falling leaf; O Jesus, quicken me.

At first I didn't see what the trouble was. It wasn't a mirror at all, but a picture.

For contemporary readers who look back on the fifties as simply being cool, it may be difficult to see how daring Plath really was. In the clutches of postwar conformity and rampant conservatism

Se zgâia la imaginea ei în ferestrele lucioase ale magazinelor de parc? ar fi vrut s? se asigure, clip? de clip?, c? exist? în continuare.

I decided to expect nothing from Buddy Willard. If you expect nothing from somebody you are never disappointed.

I saw the years of my life spaced along a road in the form of telephone poles, threaded together by wires. I counted one, two, three ... nineteen telephone poles, and then the wires dangled into space, and try as I would, I couldn't see a single pole beyond the nineteenth.

Mrs. Guinea answered my letter and invited me to lunch at her home. That was where I saw my first fingerbowl. The water had a few cherry blossoms floating in it, and I thought it must be some clear sort of Japanese after-dinner soup and ate every bit of it, including the crisp little blossoms. Mrs. Guinea never said anything, and it was only much later, when I told a debutante I knew at college about the dinner, that I learned what I had done.

Preferiría que algo funcionara mal en mi cuerpo a que funcionara mal en mi cabeza, pero la idea parecía tan complicada que no dije nada

While he kissed me I kept my eyes open and tried to memorize the spacing of the house lights so I would never forget them.

I began to see why woman-haters could make such fools of women. Woman-haters were like gods: invulnerable and chockfull of power. They descended, and then they disappeared. You could never catch one.

Si no esperas nada de nadie, nunca estarás decepcionado.

On a low coffee table, with circular and semicircular stains bitten into the dark veneer, lay a few wilted numbers of Time and Life. I flipped to the middle of the nearest magazine. The face of Eisenhower beamed up at me, bald and blank as the face of a fetus in a bottle.

I didn't call you I didn't call you at all. Nevertheless, nevertheless You steamed to me over the sea

I thought if only I had a keen, shapely bone structure to my face or could discuss politics shrewdly or was a famous writer Constantin might find me interesting enough to sleep with.

How frail the human heart must be ? a throbbing pulse , a trembling thing ? a fragile, shining instrument of crystal, which can either weep or sing.

My drink was wet and depressing. Each time I took another sip it tasted more and more like dead water

They were all smiling with bright, artificial smiles.

Entonces Constantino y la intérprete rusa y todo aquel montón de hombres negros y blancos y amarillos discutiendo allá abajo detrás de sus micrófonos rotulados parecieron alejarse en la distancia. Vi sus bocas subir y bajar sin sonido, como si estuvieran sentados en la cubierta de un buque que partía, dejándome en medio de un enorme silencio.

I also hate people to ask cheerfully how you are when they know you're feeling like hell and expect you to say "Fine.

No podía apartar los ojos del alfiler. Una gran luz blanca parecía desprenderse de él, iluminando la habitación. Luego la luz se retiraba hacia su propio interior dejando una gota de rocío sobre un campo de oro.

I had never met a misogynist before. I could tell Marco was a woman-hater, because in spite of all the models and TV starlets in the room that night he paid attention to nobody but me. Not out of kindness or even curiosity, but because I'd happened to be dealt to him, like a playing card in a pack of identical cards.

Pensé que la letra minúscula al principio podía significar que nunca nada era en su comienzo realmente nuevo, con mayúscula, sino que todo fluía de lo anterior.

The lawn was white with doctors.