Sylvia Plath Quotes About Silver

Quotes about: Silver

• So, now I shall talk every night. To myself. To the moon. I shall walk, as I did tonight, jealous of my loneliness, in the blue-silver of the cold moon, shining brilliantly on the drifts of fresh-fallen snow, with the myriad sparkles. I talk to myself and look at the dark trees, blessedly neutral. So much easier than facing people, than having to look happy, invulnerable, clever.

  Sylvia Plath

  Clever, Loneliness, Jealous

  Sylvia Plath (2007). “The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.200, Anchor

• I felt overstuffed and dull and disappointed, the way I always do the day after Christmas, as if whatever it was the pine boughs and the candles and the silver and gilt-ribboned presents and the birch-log fires and the Christmas turkey and the carols at the piano promised never came to pass.

  Sylvia Plath

  Christmas, Disappointment, Fire

  Sylvia Plath (2008). “The Bell Jar”, p.65, Faber & Faber

• So learn about life. Cut yourself a big slice with the silver server, a big slice of pie. Open your eyes. Let life happen.

  Sylvia Plath

  Eye, Cutting, Pie

  Sylvia Plath (2007). “The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.438, Anchor

• 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

• I am silver and exact.I have no preconceptions.

  Sylvia Plath

  Silver, Preconceptions

  Sylvia Plath (2015). “Collected Poems”, p.333, Faber & Faber

• I had removed my patent leather shoes after a while, for they foundered badly in the sand. It pleased me to think they would be perched there on the silver log, pointing out to sea, like a sort of soul-compass, after I was dead.

  Sylvia Plath

  Thinking, Sea, Shoes

  Sylvia Plath (2008). “The Bell Jar”, p.113, Faber & Faber

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