Frases de Sylvia Plath página 6

“Morrer é uma arte, como tudo o mais. Que eu pratico surpreendentemente bem.”

“Para a pessoa dentro da redoma de vidro, vazia e imóvel como um bebê morto, o mundo inteiro é um sonho ruim.”

“Ninguém no caminho, e nada, nada a não ser amoras”

The Bell Jar

“Respirei fundo e escutei o velho e orgulhoso som do meu coração. Eu sou, eu sou, eu sou.”

“Talvez quando nos encontramos querendo tudo, é porque estamos perigosamente perto de não querer nada.”

I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart: I am, I am, I am.
The bell jar‎ - Página 199, Sylvia Plath - Bantam Books, 1972 - 216 páginas

“Você nunca se decepciona quando não espera nada de alguém.”

Sylvia Plath frases e citações

“Eu fecho meus olhos e o mundo inteiro morre subitamente; eu abro meu olhos e tudo nasce novamente.”

The Bell Jar

“Nada melhor do que vomitar com outra pessoa para ganhar intimidade”

“Também lembrei de Buddy Williard dizendo com uma voz sinistra e sabichona que depois que tivéssemos filhos eu me sentiria diferente e não mais teria vontade de escrever poemas. E me ocorreu que talvez fosse verdade aquela história de que casar e ter filhos era como passar por uma lavagem cerebral, e que depois eu que você ficava inerte feito um escravo num pequeno estado totalitário.”

“Se eu nunca aprendesse, nunca teria que colocar aquilo em prática.”

The Bell Jar

“Nossos sonhos podem obscurecer as linhas intransigentes que desenham os contornos que nos aprisionam?”

The Bell Jar

“deixa-me viver, amar e dizê-lo bem em boas frases”

The Collected Poems

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“Senti meus pulmões inflarem com a paisagem - ar, montanhas, árvores, pessoas. Eu pensei: "Isto é o que é ser feliz.”

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“Devemos nos encontrar em outra vida, devemos nos encontrar no ar, eu e você.”

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“Não há saída para fora da mente?”

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“Only I wasn't steering anything, not even myself.”

Sylvia Plath: Frases em inglês

“You walked in, laughing, tears welling confused, mingling in your throat. How can you be so many women to so many people, oh you strange girl?”

Sylvia Plath livro The Bell Jar

Fonte: The Bell Jar

“I like you, but not too much. I don’t want to like anybody too much.”

Fonte: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

“I had hoped, at my departure, I would feel sure and knowledgeable about everything that lay ahead -- after all, I had been "analyzed." Instead, all I could see were question marks.”

“I am accused. I dream of massacres.
I am a garden of black and red agonies. I drink them,
Hating myself, hating and fearing. And now the
world conceives
Its end and runs toward it, arms held out in love.”

Sylvia Plath livro The Bell Jar

Fonte: The Bell Jar

“I sank back in the gray, plush seat and closed my eyes. The air of the bell jar wadded round me and I couldn't stir.”

“The future is what matters — because one never reaches it, but always stays in the present — like the White Queen who had to run like the wind to remain in the same spot.”

Sylvia Plath livro The Bell Jar

Fonte: The Bell Jar

“Worse even
than your maddening
song, your silence." -”

Fonte: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

“Perhaps, perhaps this would be the one to pull me out of my plunge.”

Fonte: The Collected Poems

“Tomorrow is another day toward death.”

Fonte: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

“What have I eaten? Lies and smiles.”

Fonte: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

“How could I write about life when I'd never had a love affair or a baby or seen anybody die?”

“I wondered what I thought I was burying.”

Sylvia Plath livro The Bell Jar

Fonte: The Bell Jar

“If neurotic is wanting two mutually exclusive things at one and the same time, then I'm neurotic as hell. I'll be flying back and forth between one mutually exclusive thing and another for the rest of my days.”

Sylvia Plath livro The Bell Jar

Fonte: The Bell Jar

“Virginia Woolf helps. Her novels make mine possible.”

Sylvia Plath livro The Bell Jar

Variante: If neurotic is wanting two mutually exclusive things at one and the same time, then I'm neurotic as hell. I'll be flying back and forth between one mutually exclusive thing and another for the rest of my days.
Fonte: The Bell Jar (1963), Ch. 8

“Frustrated? Yes. Why? Because it is impossible for me to be God — or the universal woman-and-man — or anything much. I am what I feel and think and do. I want to express my being as fully as I can because I somewhere picked up the idea that I could justify my being alive that way.”

Fonte: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

“With me, the present is forever, and forever is always shifting, flowing, melting. This second is life. And when it is gone it is dead. But you can't start over with each new second. You have to judge by what is dead. It's like quicksand… hopeless from the start.”

1950 entry, quoted in Gayle Wurst, Voice and Vision: The Poetry of Sylvia Plath (1999), p. 158
The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath (2000)

“I never feel so much myself as when I'm in a hot bath.”

1950-07-08
The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath (2000)

“This is the light of the mind, cold and planetary.
The trees of the mind are black. The light is blue.”

Sylvia Plath livro The Bell Jar

Fonte: The Bell Jar (1963), Ch. 2

“I saw myself sitting in the crotch of this fig tree, starving to death, just because I couldn't make up my mind which of the figs I would choose. I wanted each and every one of them, but choosing one meant losing all the rest, and, as I sat there, unable to decide, the figs began to wrinkle and go black, and, one by one, they plopped to the ground at my feet.”

Sylvia Plath Ariel

"The Moon and the Yew Tree" http://www.angelfire.com/tn/plath/yew.html <br class="br">Ariel (1965)

“Don't talk to me about the world needing cheerful stuff! What the person out of Belsen — physical or psychological — wants is nobody saying the birdies still go tweet-tweet, but the full knowledge that somebody else has been there and knows the worst, just what it is like.”

Sylvia Plath livro The Bell Jar

Fonte: The Bell Jar (1963), Ch. 7

“And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.”

Letter to Aurelia Plath (August 21, 1962)
Letters Home: Correspondence 1950–1963 (1976)

“I felt my lungs inflate with the onrush of scenery—air, mountains, trees, people. I thought, "This is what it is to be happy.”

Fonte: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

“When they asked me what I wanted to be I said I didn’t know.
"Oh, sure you know," the photographer said.
"She wants," said Jay Cee wittily, "to be everything.”

Sylvia Plath livro The Bell Jar

Fonte: The Bell Jar

“I was supposed to be having the time of my life.”

Sylvia Plath livro The Bell Jar

Fonte: The Bell Jar

“I wonder why I don't go to bed and go to sleep. But then it would be tomorrow, so I decide that no matter how tired, no matter how incoherent I am, I can skip on hour more of sleep and live.”

Sylvia Plath livro The Bell Jar

Fonte: The Bell Jar

“What did my arms do before they held you?”

Fonte: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

“There must be quite a few things a hot bath won't cure, but I don't know many of them.”

"Three Women: A Poem for Three Voices" http://www.angelfire.com/tn/plath/3women.html (1962), a radio play published in 1968 <br class="br">Variante: What did my fingers do before they held him?<br>What did my heart do, with its love? <br class="br">Fonte: The Collected Poems

“Living with him is like being told a perpetual story: his mind is the biggest, most imaginative I have ever met. I could live in its growing countries forever.”

Sylvia Plath livro The Bell Jar

Fonte: The Bell Jar (1963), Ch. 2

“I think I made you up inside my head.”

Fonte: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath