Latest Sylvia Plath Quotes from Interviews

• I find myself absolutely fulfilled when I have written a poem, when I'm writing one. Having written one, then you fall away very rapidly from having been a poet to becoming a sort of poet in rest, which isn't the same thing at all. But I think the actual experience of writing a poem is a magnificent one.

  Sylvia Plath

  Fall, Writing, Thinking

  Fuente: www.english.illinois.edu

• I'm happier writing about doctors than I would have been being one.

  Sylvia Plath

  Writing, Doctors, Has Beens

  Fuente: www.english.illinois.edu

• I think if I had done anything else I would like to have been a doctor. This is the sort of polar opposition to being a writer, I suppose.

  Sylvia Plath

  Thinking, Doctors, Done

  Fuente: www.english.illinois.edu

• Cuando era joven, mis mejores amigos siempre eran médicos. Yo solía vestirme con un casco blanco de gasa e iba por ahí a ver nacer bebés y abrir cadáveres. Esto me fascinaba, pero nunca pude disciplinarme hasta el punto de aprender todos los detalles que hay que aprender para ser un buen médico. Este es el tipo de oposición: alguien que trata directamente con las experiencias humanas, es capaz de curar, de remendar, de ayudar, este tipo de cosas.

  Sylvia Plath

  Baby, Cutting, Doctors

  Fuente: www.english.illinois.edu

• As a poet, one lives a bit on air. I always like someone who can teach me something practical.

  Sylvia Plath

  Air, Poet, Teach

  Fuente: www.english.illinois.edu

• I would say everything should be able to come into a poem, but I can't put toothbrushes into a poem, I really can't!

  Sylvia Plath

  Able, Should, Toothbrushes

  Fuente: www.english.illinois.edu

• I must say what I admire most is the person who masters an area of practical experience, and can teach me something. I mean, my local midwife has taught me how to keep bees. Well, she can't understand anything I write. And I find myself liking her, may I say, more than most poets. And among my friends I find people who know all about boats or know all about certain sports, or how to cut somebody open and remove an organ. I'm fascinated by this mastery of the practical.

  Sylvia Plath

  Sports, Writing, Mean

  Fuente: www.english.illinois.edu

• Poetry, I feel, is a tyrannical discipline, you've got to go so far, so fast, in such a small space that you've just got to turn away all the peripherals.

  Sylvia Plath

  Space, Discipline, Turns

  Fuente: www.english.illinois.edu

• I find that in a novel I can get more of life, perhaps not such intense life, but certainly more of life than in poetry.

  Sylvia Plath

  Intense, Novel, I Can

  Fuente: www.english.illinois.edu

• Siempre me interesó la prosa. De adolescente, publicaba relatos cortos. Y siempre quise escribir el cuento largo, quería escribir una novela. Ahora que he alcanzado, digamos, una edad respetable, y he tenido experiencias, me siento mucho más interesado en la prosa, en la novela. Siento que en una novela, por ejemplo, puedes meter cepillos de dientes y toda la parafernalia que uno encuentra en la vida cotidiana, y eso me resulta más difícil en la poesía.

  Sylvia Plath

  Adolescente, Escribir, Largo

  Fuente: www.english.illinois.edu

• Lo siento ahora y creo que este desarrollo de grabar poemas, de hablar de poemas en lecturas, de tener registros de poetas, creo que es algo maravilloso. Me entusiasma. En cierto sentido, estamos volviendo al antiguo papel del poeta, que consistía en hablar a un grupo de gente, en presentarse.

  Sylvia Plath

  Reading, Thinking, People

  Fuente: www.english.illinois.edu

• I feel that very strongly: having been an academic, having been tempted by the invitation to stay on to become a Ph.D., a professor, and all that, one side of me certainly does respect all disciplines, as long as they don't ossify.

  Sylvia Plath

  Discipline, Long, Doe

  Fuente: www.english.illinois.edu

• I believe that one should be able to control and manipulate experiences, even the most terrific, like madness, being tortured, this sort of experience, and one should be able to manipulate these experiences with an informed and an intelligent mini.

  Sylvia Plath

  Believe, Intelligent, Able

  Fuente: www.english.illinois.edu

• I think that in poetry personal experience is very important, but certainly it shouldn't be a kind of shut-box and mirror looking, narcissistic experience. I believe it should be relevant, and relevant to the larger things, the bigger things such as Hiroshima and Dachau and so on.

  Sylvia Plath

  Believe, Thinking, Mirrors

  Fuente: www.english.illinois.edu

• No soy historiador, pero cada vez me fascina más la historia y cada vez leo más sobre historia. Actualmente me interesa mucho Napoleón: Me interesan mucho las batallas, las guerras, Gallipoli, la Primera Guerra Mundial, etc., y creo que a medida que envejezco me vuelvo cada vez más histórico. Desde luego, no lo era en absoluto cuando tenía veinte años.

  Sylvia Plath

  Guerra, Lectura, Pensamiento

  Fuente: www.english.illinois.edu

• I think my poems immediately come out of the sensuous and emotional experiences I have, but I must say I cannot sympathise with these cries from the heart that are informed by nothing except a needle or a knife, or whatever it is.

  Sylvia Plath

  Heart, Emotional, Thinking

  Fuente: www.english.illinois.edu

• I must say that I am not very genteel and I feel that gentility has a stranglehold: the neatness, the wonderful tidiness, which is so evident everywhere in England is perhaps more dangerous than it would appear on the surface.

  Sylvia Plath

  England, Wonderful, Surface

  Fuente: www.english.illinois.edu

• I think the whole emphasis in England, in universities, on practical criticism (but not that so much as on historical criticism, knowing what period a line comes from) this is almost paralysing. In America, in University, we read - what? - T. S. Eliot, Dylan Thomas, Yeats, that is where we began. Shakespeare flaunted in the background. I'm not sure I agree with this, but I think that' for the young poet, the writing poet, it is not quite so frightening to go to university in America as it is in England, for these reasons.

  Sylvia Plath

  Writing, Thinking, Knowing

  Fuente: www.english.illinois.edu

• I think that as far as language goes I'm an American, I'm afraid, my accent is American, my way of talk is an American way of talk, I'm an old-fashioned American. That's probably one of the reasons why I'm in England now and why I'll always stay in England.

  Sylvia Plath

  Thinking, Way, England

  Fuente: www.english.illinois.edu

• I'm about fifty years behind as far as my preferences go and I must say that the poets who excite me most are the Americans. There are very few contemporary English poets that I admire.

  Sylvia Plath

  Years, Fifty, Poet

  Fuente: www.english.illinois.edu

• I think the coming of spring, the stars overhead, the first snowfall and so on are gifts for a child, a young poet.

  Sylvia Plath

  Stars, Children, Spring

  Fuente: www.english.illinois.edu

• I don't know what started me, I just wrote poetry from the time was quite small. I guess I liked nursery rhymes and I guess I thought I could do the same thing. I wrote my first poem, my first published poem, when I was eight-and-a-half years old. It came out in The Boston Traveller and from then on, I suppose, I've been a bit of a professional.

  Sylvia Plath

  Eight, Boston, Years

  Fuente: www.english.illinois.edu

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