It was my first big chance, but here I was, sitting back and letting it run through my fingers like so much water.
Sylvia PlathCompared with me, a tree is immortal.
Sylvia PlathBeached under the spumy blooms, we lie
Sea-sick and fever-dry.
--from "Withsun", written 14 February 1961
Ever since I was small I loved feeling somebody comb my hair. It made me go all sleepy and peaceful.
Sylvia PlathI had always imagined myself hitching up on to my elbows on the delivery table after it was all over - dead white, of course, with no makeup and from the awful ordeal, but smiling and radiant, with my hair down to my waist, and reaching out for my first little squirmy child and saying its name, whatever it was.
Sylvia PlathWhat a man wants is a mate and what a woman wants is infinite security,’ and, ‘What a man is is an arrow into the future and a what a woman is is the place the arrow shoots off from.
Sylvia PlathStichwörter: love men women marriage
From the night Buddy Willard kissed me and said I must go out with a lot of boys, he made me feel I was much more sexy and experienced than he was and that everything he did like hugging and kissing and petting was simply what I made him feel like doing out of the blue, he couldn’t help it and didn’t know how it came about. Now I saw he had only been pretending all this time to be so innocent.
Sylvia PlathAsh, 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.
--from "Lady Lazarus", written 23-29 October 1962
I like people too much or not at all. I've got to go down deep, to fall into people, to really know them.
Sylvia PlathIf they substituted the word 'Lust' for 'Love' in the popular songs it would come nearer the truth.
Sylvia PlathStichwörter: lust song-lyrics
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