Sylvia Plath was known for visceral confessional poetry and prose that dealt with topics ranging from gender inequality to the anxieties surrounding death. Here are some of the top 10 Sylvia Plath quotes on love.
"There is nothing like puking with somebody to make you into old friends."
- The Bell Jar
"That's one of the reasons I never wanted to get married. The last thing I wanted was infinite security and to be the place an arrow shoots off from. I wanted change and excitement and to shoot off in all directions myself, like the colored arrows from a Fourth of July rocket."
- The Bell Jar
"There I went again, building up a glamorous picture of a man who would love me passionately the minute he met me, and all out of a few prosy nothings."
- The Bell Jar
"So I began to think maybe it was true that when you were married and had children it was like being brainwashed, and afterward you went about numb as a slave in some private, totalitarian state."
- The Bell Jar
"I hadn't, at the last moment, felt like washing off the two diagonal lines of dried blood that marked my cheeks. They seemed touching, and rather spectacular, and I thought I would carry them around with me, like the relic of a dead lover, till they wore off of their own accord."
- The Bell Jar
"I have room in me for love. And forever so many little lives."
- The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
"Love is a desperate artifice to take the place of those two original parents who turned out not to be omnisciently right gods."
- The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
"Kiss me, and you will see how important I am."
- The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
"I am, to be blunt and concise, in love only with myself, my puny being with its small inadequate breasts and meager, thin talents. I am capable of affection for those who reflect my own world."