Sylvia Plath Quotes About Books

Quotes about: Books

• I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want. And why do I want? I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in life. And I am horribly limited.

  Sylvia Plath

  Famous Inspirational, Book, Skills

• What is my life for and what am I going to do with it? I don't know and I'm afraid. I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want.

  Sylvia Plath

  Book, People, Want

  Sylvia Plath (2007). “The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.43, Anchor

• I cannot life for life itself: but for the words which stay the flux. My life, I feel, will not be lived until there are books and stories which relive it perpetually in time. I forget too easily how it was, and shrink to the horror of the here and now, with no past and no future. Writing breaks open the vaults of the dead and the skies behind which the prophesying angels hide. The mind makes and makes, spinning its web.

  Sylvia Plath

  Book, Writing, Angel

  Sylvia Plath (2007). “The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.286, Anchor

• What do you have in mind after you graduate?" What I always thought I had in mind was getting some big scholarship to graduate school or a grant to study all over Europe, and then I thought I'd be a professor and write books of poems or write books of poems and be an editor of some sort. Usually I had these plans on the tip of my tongue. "I don't really know," I heard myself say. I felt a deep shock, hearing myself say that, because the minute I said it, I knew it was true.

  Sylvia Plath

  Book, Writing, School

  Sylvia Plath (2016). “The Bell Jar”, p.19, Hamilton Books

• What I didn't say was that each time I picked up a German dictionary or a German book, the very sight of those dense, black, barbed-wire letters made my mind shut like a clam.

  Sylvia Plath

  Book, Sight, Black

  Sylvia Plath (2016). “The Bell Jar”, p.19, Hamilton Books

• …* to learn that money makes life smooth in some ways, and to feel how tight and threadbare life is if you have too little. * to despise money, which is a farce, mere paper, and to hate what you have to do for it, and yet to long to have it in order to be free from slaving for it. * to yearn toward art, music, ballet and good books, and get them only in tantalizing snatches.

  Sylvia Plath

  Art, Hate, Book

• The reason I haven't been writing in this book for so long is partly that I haven't had one decent coherent thought to put down.

  Sylvia Plath

  Book, Writing, Long

  Sylvia Plath (2007). “The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.33, Anchor

• My wanting to write books annihilates the original root impulse that would have me bravely and blunderingly working on them.

  Sylvia Plath

  Book, Writing, Roots

  Sylvia Plath (2007). “The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.523, Anchor

• I want to force myself again and again to leave the warmth and security of static situations and move into the world of growth and suffering where the real books are people's minds and souls.

  Sylvia Plath

  Real, Moving, Book

  Sylvia Plath (2011). “Letters Home”, p.296, Faber & Faber

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