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[Welcome To Riot Grrrl Online] Sylvia Plath Quotes "Your body hurts me."--Sylvia Plath "Jealousy can open the blood, it can make black roses."--Sylvia Plath "This is the room I have never been in, this is the room I could never breathe in."--Sylvia Plath "Their hands and faces stiff with holiness."--Sylvia Plath "Now I am silent, hate up to my neck."--Sylvia Plath "And my heart too small too bandage their terrible faults."--Sylvia Plath "The vivid tulips eat my oxygen."--Sylvia Plath "The tulips are too red...they hurt me."--Sylvia Plath "A living doll, everywhere you look."--Sylvia Plath "Like a cat I have nine times to die."--Sylvia Plath "I turn and burn. Do not think I underestimate your great concern."--Sylvia Plath "I eat men like air."--Sylvia Plath "I think my poems immediately come out of the sensuous and emotional experiences I have... I believe that one should be able to control and manipulate experiences, even the most terrific, like madness, being tortured, [that] one should be able to manipulate these experiences with an informed and an intelligent mind."--Sylvia Plath "Poetry, I feel, is a tyrannical discipline, you've got to go so far, so fast, in such a small space that you've just got to turn away all the peripherals."--Sylvia Plath "I much prefer doctors, midwives, lawyers, anything but writers. I think writers and artists are the most narcissistic people."--Sylvia Plath "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 "dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well. I do it so it feels like hell. I do it so it feels real. I guess you could say I've a call."--Sylvia Plath "How frail the human heart must be --a mirrored pool of thought..."--Sylvia Plath "I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead; I lift my eyes and all is born again."--Sylvia Plath "I talk to God but the sky is empty."--Sylvia Plath "I took a deep breath and listened to the old bray of my heart. I am. I am. I am."--Sylvia Plath "If neurotic is wanting two mutually exclusive things at one and the same time, then I'm neurotic as hell. I'll be flying back and forth between one mutually exclusive thing and another for the rest of my days."--Sylvia Plath "The blood jet is poetry and there is no stopping it."--Sylvia Plath "There must be quite a few things that a hot bath won't cure, but I don't know many of them."--Sylvia Plath "Widow. The word consumes itself."--Sylvia Plath back! xo