Before I give my body, I must give my thoughts, my mind, my dreams.

Any boy would deny that any gallant boy any gallant liar.

You don’t give a damn about me except physically.I picked these excerpts very carefully some of these have happened to me, some are ideas I thought of but couldn’t put into words and some are just beautiful sentences I happened to highlight in my book but I can assure you that all of these are philosophical and eternally rational. It’s been only three days since I first laid my hands on The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath and I have not finished reading it yet but I am already itching to share with you some of the lines I found incredibly relatable, mentally stimulating and even haunting at times. I myself have read her books and poems in various sources and I admit that it is difficult to choose only twenty-five quotes to include in this post because almost every line she has written can make a good one. There have been various – often contested and contradictory – biographies of Plath since her death as well as much of her own autobiographical work including two volumes of her letters (the third volume is published in September 2018) and her journals.Many of us know how much of a brilliant poet and writer Sylvia Plath is. After her death, Hughes went on to published three further volumes of Plath’s unpublished verse including including The Collected Poems, which was the recipient of the 1982 Pulitzer Prize, making Plath the first poet to posthumously win the award.Ĭritics have compared Plath’s work to that of other American so-called ‘confessional’ poets including Anne Sexton and Robert Lowell and her life and work have made her a major cult figure for writers and readers alike.

Her only novel, The Bell Jar, was published in 1963, a month before Plath took her own life at the age of 30. In 1962, after her separation from Hughes, Plath wrote and published her most famous poetry collection, Ariel. Plath’s first collection of poetry, The Colossus, was first published in 1960. After graduating from Smith College, Plath moved to Cambridge, England on a Fulbright scholarship where she met and married Ted Hughes. Born in 1932 in Boston, Massachusetts, Sylvia Plath had already published poems in regional journals and newspapers before leaving school.

The unabridged journals of sylvia plath