Sylvia Plath Quotes About Reading

Quotes about: Reading

• So much working, reading, thinking, living to do! A lifetime is not long enough.

  Sylvia Plath

  Reading, Thinking, Long

  Sylvia Plath (2007). “The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.149, Anchor

• I do feel that now and I feel that this development of recording poems, of speaking poems at readings, of having records of poets, I think this is a wonderful thing. I'm very excited by it. In a sense, there's a return, isn't there, to the old role of the poet, which was to speak to a group of people, to come across.

  Sylvia Plath

  Reading, Thinking, People

  Source: www.english.illinois.edu

• So much working, reading, thinking, living to do. A lifetime is not long enough. Nor youth to old age long enough. Immortality and permanence be damned. Sure I want them, but they are nonexistent, and won't matter when I rot underground. All I want to say is: I made the best of a mediocre job. It was a good fight while it lasted. And so life goes.

  Sylvia Plath

  Jobs, Reading, Fighting

  Sylvia Plath (2007). “The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.149, Anchor

• And I identify too closely with my reading, with my writing.

  Sylvia Plath

  Reading, Writing

  Sylvia Plath (2007). “The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.199, Anchor

• I am not a historian, but I find myself being more and more fascinated by history and now I find myself reading more and more about history. I am very interested in Napoleon, at the present: I'm very interested in battles, in wars, in Gallipoli, the First World War and so on, and I think that as I age I am becoming more and more historical. I certainly wasn't at all in my early twenties.

  Sylvia Plath

  War, Reading, Thinking

  Source: www.english.illinois.edu

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