Źródło: Dzienniki. 1950–1962 (ang. The journals of Sylvia Plath, 1950–1962), tłum. Joanna Urban i Paweł Stachura
Sylvia Plath: 362 cytaty2 Polubienia
Sylvia Plath słynne cytaty
„Umieranie jest sztuką, tak jak wszystko inne. Robię to wyjątkowo dobrze.”
Dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well. (ang.)
Sylvia Plath cytaty
„Jak człowiek zacznie tylko o czymś marzyć, to nieuchronnie doznaje rozczarowania.”
Sylvia Plath książka Szklany klosz
Szklany klosz (1963)
Źródło: Źdźbło w oku (ang. They Eye-Mote) z tomu Kolos, tłum. Teresa Truszkowska
Sylvia Plath: Cytaty po angielsku
“If you love her", I said, "you'll love somebody else someday.”
Sylvia Plath książka Szklany klosz
Źródło: The Bell Jar
Źródło: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
1950 entry, quoted in Kate Moses, "The Real Sylvia Plath," Salon.com (2000-06-01) http://dir.salon.com/story/books/feature/2000/06/01/plath2/ <br class="br">The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath (2000) <br class="br">Wariant: If I didn't think, I'd be much happier; if I didn't have any sex organs, I wouldn't waver on the brink of nervous emotion and tears all the time. <br class="br">Źródło: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
Sylvia Plath książka Szklany klosz
Źródło: The Bell Jar (1963), Ch. 7
Kontekst: Instead of the world being divided up into Catholics and Protestants or Republicans and Democrats or white men and black men or even men and women, I saw the world divided into people who had slept with somebody and people who hadn't, and this seemed the only really significant difference between one person and another. I thought a spectacular change would come over me the day I crossed the boundary line.
“So much working, reading, thinking, living to do! A lifetime is not long enough.”
Źródło: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
“I thought the most beautiful thing in the world must be shadow.”
Sylvia Plath książka Szklany klosz
Źródło: The Bell Jar
Źródło: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
Sylvia Plath książka Szklany klosz
Wariant: The same thing happened over and over: I would catch sight of some flawless man in the distance, but as soon as he moved closer I immediately saw he wouldn’t do at all.
Źródło: The Bell Jar
Źródło: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
“Wear your heart on your skin in this life.”
Źródło: Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams: Short Stories, Prose and Diary Excerpts
Sylvia Plath książka Szklany klosz
Źródło: The Bell Jar
Źródło: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
“Then I decided I would spend the summer writing a novel.
That would fix a lot of people.”
Sylvia Plath książka Szklany klosz
Źródło: The Bell Jar
“Nothing stinks like a pile of unpublished writing.”
Wariant: Nothing stinks like a pile of unpublished writing.
“No day is safe from news of you.”
Źródło: Ariel: The Restored Edition
Sylvia Plath książka Szklany klosz
Źródło: The Bell Jar (1963), Ch. 2
“I am dead to them, even though I once flowered.”
Źródło: The Journals Of Sylvia Plath
“I smile, now, thinking: we all like to think we are important enough to need psychiatrists”
Źródło: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
