Plath Quotes

• A lo largo de la historia, se pueden leer historias de mujeres que, contra todo pronóstico, lograron ser mujeres, pero acabaron comprometidas, infelices, cojas o arruinadas porque, a su alrededor, la sociedad seguía equivocada. Muéstrale a una niña una heroína pionera - Sylvia Plath, Dorothy Parker, Frida Kahlo, Cleopatra, Boudicca, Juana de Arco - y también, la mayoría de las veces, le mostrarás a una niña una mujer que finalmente fue aplastada.

  Caitlin Moran

  Girl, Hero, Odds

  Caitlin Moran (2012). “How to Be a Woman”, p.8, Harper Collins

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• I remember coming upon Philip Larkin in my 20s in the early '60s and when Sylvia Plath's "Ariel" came out it knocked me off my feet.

  Stephen Dobyns

  Feet, Ariel, Remember

  Fuente: www.bostonglobe.com

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• Si quieres llegar a Walt Whitman y Robert Frost y Langston Hughes y Sylvia Plath tienes que averiguar cómo pones a la gente en posesión de su herencia. Para ello hay que hablar de cómo se les enseña y de la imaginación de comunidad que tienen las personas que dirigen nuestro gobierno.

  Robert Hass

  Correr, Gobierno, Imaginación

  Entrevista con Sarah Pollock, www.motherjones.com. Marzo/abril de 1997.

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• Mira, si preguntas a un niño: "¿Preferirías tener una madre satisfecha o una ama de casa Sylvia Plath?", elegirá Sylvia Plath siempre. Pero creo que es muy importante que los niños no sientan que la vida emocional de sus padres depende de su éxito.

  Ayelet Waldman

  Madre, Hijos, Hogar

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• With ferocity and extraordinary craft, Lizzie Harris has made a book of poems that resonates far beyond the personal stories it tells. Stop Wanting reveals, in every lyric, its author's profound metaphorical gifts. In its ironies and intensities, it brings to mind a writer like the young Sylvia Plath, though what is startling about Harris' s work is the way it combines those gifts with a muted, deft self-awareness. Most of all, these are wonderfully shaped, powerful, and surprising poems-a startling debut.

  Meghan O'Rourke

  Poderoso, Libro, Propio

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• Sylvia Plath. Interesting poetess whose tragic suicide was misinterpreted as romantic by the college-girl mentality.

  Woody Allen

  Girl, Suicide, College

  Woody Allen, Marshall Brickman (2000). "Annie Hall: scénario bilingue"

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• Like all twenty-one-year-old poets, I thought I would be dead by thirty, and Sylvia Plath had not set a helpful example. For a while there, you were made to feel that, if a poet and female,
  you could not really be serious about it unless you'd made at least one suicide attempt. So I felt I was running out of time.

  Margaret Atwood

  Suicide, Running, Years

  "Margaret Atwood: escribir filosofía". Waterstone's Poetry Lecture, Delivered At Hay On Wye, canpoetry.library.utoronto.ca. Junio de 1995.

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• Come on, man.... Hemingway, Sexton, Plath, Woolf. You can't kill yourself before you're even published.

  Paul Giamatti

  Men, Killing Yourself, Woolf

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• I don't mean that creative people are somehow finer, or more sensitive, and thus have finer, more sensitive nervous breakdowns - you can save that horseshit for the Sylvia Plath worshipers. It's just that creative people have creative breakdowns.

  Stephen King

  Mean, People, Creative

  Stephen King (2016). “The Tommyknockers”, p.154, Simon and Schuster

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• I loved 1930's women's pictures'films by Josef Von Sternberg or William Wyler. So, I fashioned a style out of that. The integrity and ethos of what I would write, however, came from the films of Ousmane Sembene and from reading Richard Wright, Toni Morrison, Sylvia Plath and Alice Walker.

  Kola Boof

  Integrity, Reading, Writing

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• Augustine, Anne Sexton and Sylvia Plath are confessional writers and all three make me sick. I have nothing in common with them.

  Joni Mitchell

  Sick, Three, Common

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• I love Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton. I also love more cerebral poets like H.D. and Emily Dickinson. My parents subscribed to a monthly poetry periodical, and as a teenager I was introduced to Denise Levertov, who was an influence.

  Francesca Lia Block

  Teenager, Parent, Influence

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• You marvel at the economy and this choice of words. How many ways can you describe the sky and the moon? After Sylvia Plath, what can you say?

  Toni Morrison

  Moon, Sky, Choices

  "A Writer Not Fusty, if Addicted to Mystery". www.nytimes.com. October 05, 2005.

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• [Short Talk on Sylvia Plath] Did you see her mother on television? She said plain, burned things. She said I thought it an excellent poem but it hurt me. She did not say jungle fear. She did not say jungle hatred wild jungle weeping chop it back chop it. She said self-government she said end of the road. She did not say humming in the middle of the air what you came for chop.

  Ana Carson

  Mother, Hurt, Government

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• But you have to understand, mental illness is like cholesterol. There is is good kind and the bad. Without the good kind- less flavor to life. Van Gogh, Beethoven, Edgar Allen Poe, Sylvia Plath, Pink Floyd (the early Piper at the Gates of Dawn line up), scientific breakthroughs, spiritual revolution, utopian visions, zany nationalism that kills millions- wait, that’s the bad kind. Tim Dorsey (Hurricane Punch)

  Tim Dorsey

  Spiritual, Waiting, Vision

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• Nuestros poetas suicidas (Plath, Berryman, Lowell, Jarrell, etc.) pasaron demasiado tiempo de sus vidas en habitaciones y aulas cuando deberían haber estado subiendo montañas, atravesando pantanos o remando ríos. La vida bajo techo es lo más parecido a un entierro prematuro.

  Edward Abbey

  Suicidal, Journey, Should Have

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.36, RosettaBooks

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• People who think that Sylvia Plath was a poor, sensitive poet are not getting that she had great amounts of ambition and anger that moved her along, or she wouldn't have been able to fight against that depression to produce such an incredible body of work by the age of thirty.

  Elizabeth Wurtzel

  Depression, Ambition, Fighting

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• Beachy Head brims with electrical currents flying backwards and forwards, with the force of poems that have been well fought out and felt. I hear the currents of Alice Notley, of Bernadette Mayer, of Eileen Myles, and Sylvia Plath

  Dorothea Lasky

  Flying, Currents, Force

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• Like Sylvia Plath, Natalie Jeanne Champagne invites you so close to the pain and agony of her life of mental illness and addiction, which leaves you gasping from shock and laughing moments later: this is both the beauty and unique nature of her storytelling. With brilliance and courage, the author's brave and candid chronicle travels where no other memoir about mental illness and addiction has gone before. The Third Sunrise is an incredible triumph and Natalie Jeanne Champagne is without a doubt the most important new voice in this genre.

  Andy Behrman

  Pain, Unique, Agony

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• Sylvia Plath was just a month and a half older than I, and when she committed suicide I was only 30 - and very shocked and sorry. I never knew her personally.

  Anne Stevenson

  Suicide, Sorry, Half

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• Es bastante espléndido pensar en todos esos grandes hombres y mujeres que parecen haber presentado síntomas que nos permiten describirlos como bipolares. Ya sea Hemingway, Van Gogh... Se ha mencionado a Robert Schumann... Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Plath... algunos de ellos con finales más bien sombríos.

  Stephen Fry

  Hombres, Pensamiento, Virginia

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