Sylvia Plath Quotes About Gold

Quotes about: Gold

• 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)

• I felt like a racehorse in a world without racetracks or a champion college footballer suddenly confronted by Wall Street and a business suit, his days of glory shrunk to a little gold cup on his mantel with a date engraved on it like the date on a tombstone.

  Sylvia Plath

  Wall, Tombstone, College

  Sylvia Plath (2016). “The Bell Jar”, p.41, Hamilton Books

• A ring of gold with the sun in it? Lies. Lies and a grief.

  Sylvia Plath

  Lying, Grief, Gold

  Sylvia Plath (2015). “Collected Poems”, p.199, Faber & Faber

• I knew chemistry would be worse, because I'd seen a big card of the ninety-odd elements hung up in the chemistry lab, and all the perfectly good words like gold and silver and cobalt and aluminum were shortened to ugly abbreviations with different decimal numbers after them.

  Sylvia Plath

  Numbers, Perfectly Good, Gold

• Love set you going like a fat gold watch. The midwife slapped your footsoles, and your bald cry Took its place among the elements.

  Sylvia Plath

  Gold, Watches, Elements

  'Morning Song' (1965)

• Do we always grind through the present, doomed to throw a gold haze of fond retrospect over the past?

  Sylvia Plath

  Inspirational, Past, Gold

  Sylvia Plath (2013). “The Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.195, Anchor

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