Sylvia Plath Quotes About Bones

Quotes about: Bones

• Ash, ash —- You poke and stir. Flesh, bone, there is nothing there—— A cake of soap, A wedding ring, A gold filling. Herr God, Herr Lucifer Beware Beware. Out of the ash I rise with my red hair And I eat men like air.

  Sylvia Plath

  Men, Hair, Cake

  "Lady Lazarus" l. 82 (1963)

• At twenty I tried to die And get back, back, back to you. I thought even the bones would do.

  Sylvia Plath

  Twenties, Bones, Dies

  Sylvia Plath (2011). “Selected Poems of Sylvia Plath”, p.50, Faber & Faber

• Love is the bone and sinew of my curse.

  Sylvia Plath

  Love Is, Bones, Curse

  Sylvia Plath (2015). “Collected Poems”, Faber & Faber

• I could feel the winter shaking my bones and banging my teeth together.

  Sylvia Plath

  Winter, Together, Teeth

  Sylvia Plath (2016). “The Bell Jar”, p.25, Hamilton Books

• 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. And then I wondered if as soon as he came to like me he would sink into ordinariness, and if as soon as he came to love me I would find fault, the way I did with Buddy Willard and the boys before him.

  Sylvia Plath

  Sleep, Boys, Interesting

  Sylvia Plath (2016). “The Bell Jar”, p.44, Hamilton Books

• Doreen had intuition. Everything she said was like a secret voice speaking straight out of my own bones.

  Sylvia Plath

  Voice, Secret, Intuition

  Sylvia Plath (2016). “The Bell Jar”, p.6, Hamilton Books

• The moon has nothing to be sad about,
  Staring from her hood of bone.
  She is used to this sort of thing.
  Her blacks crackle and drag.

  Sylvia Plath

  Moon, Darkness, Bones

  Sylvia Plath (2015). “Collected Poems”, p.224, Faber & Faber

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