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Sylvia Plath: Her Drawings QUOTES

Sylvia Plath: Her Drawings QUOTES

1 " I don’t like this life; but I do it. Like a good girl. "

― Sylvia Plath , Sylvia Plath: Her Drawings

2 " When Ted and I begin living together we shall become a team better than Mr. and Mrs. Yeats—he being a competent astrologist, reading horoscopes, and me being a tarot-pack reader, and, when we have enough money, a crystal-gazer. "

― Sylvia Plath , Sylvia Plath: Her Drawings

3 " it gives me such a sense of peace to draw; more than prayer, walks, anything. "

― Sylvia Plath , Sylvia Plath: Her Drawings

4 " I beamed benevolently at them over my third atheistic cup of coffee and ate my existentialist egg "

― Sylvia Plath , Sylvia Plath: Her Drawings

5 " I write and think and study perfectly when with him; apart, I’m split and only can work properly in brief, stoic spells. "

― Sylvia Plath , Sylvia Plath: Her Drawings

6 " I really love this city above any I’ve ever been in; it is dear and graceful and elegant and what one makes it. "

― Sylvia Plath , Sylvia Plath: Her Drawings

7 " When Ted and I begin living together we shall become a team better than Mr. and Mrs. Yeats "

― Sylvia Plath , Sylvia Plath: Her Drawings

8 " I write and think and study perfectly when with him; apart, I’m split and only can work properly in brief, stoic spells. . . . "

― Sylvia Plath , Sylvia Plath: Her Drawings

9 " I’ve discovered my deepest source of inspiration, which is art: the art of the primitives like Henri Rousseau, Gauguin, Paul Klee, and De Chirico. "

― Sylvia Plath , Sylvia Plath: Her Drawings

10 " my inspiration is paintings and not music when I go to some other art form . . . I see these things very clearly. "

― Sylvia Plath , Sylvia Plath: Her Drawings

11 " I beamed benevolently at them over my third atheistic cup of coffee and ate my existentialist egg; "

― Sylvia Plath , Sylvia Plath: Her Drawings

12 " ache and ache to return to my proper place, which is curled up right there, sheltered and cherished "

― Sylvia Plath , Sylvia Plath: Her Drawings

13 " I feel, in my singular passions and furies, that I become a gargoyle, and that people will point. One thing, I certainly prefer being alone; I shun people like poison; I simply don’t want them; I sit and answer the countless questions of the new girls at table; I find myself being funny and making them laugh with descriptions of people & events, and wonder that I can operate so mechanically, with such little feeling, still retaining the habits of a sane person, without being discovered. "

― Sylvia Plath , Sylvia Plath: Her Drawings

14 " It is as if, by concentrating on the “inscape”, as Hopkins says, of leaf and plant and animal, I can know the world a new and special way; and make up my own versions of it. "

― Sylvia Plath , Sylvia Plath: Her Drawings

15 " feel like some eon-old matriarch who has been through ice age and 40-day flood; "

― Sylvia Plath , Sylvia Plath: Her Drawings