Sylvia Plath Heart Quotations

How frail the human heart must be - a mirrored pool of thought.

Wear your heart on your skin in this life.

When you give someone your whole heart and he doesn't want it, you cannot take it back. It's gone forever.

I am sending back the key that let me into bluebeard's study; because he would make love to me I am sending back the key; in his eye's darkroom I can see my X-rayed heart, dissected body: I am sending back the key that let me into bluebeard s study.

Clouds pass and disperse. Are those the faces of love, those pale irretrievables? Is it for such I agitate my heart?

It is a terrible thing to be so open: it is as if my heart put on a face and walked into the world.

... you looked around and saw everybody either married or busy and happy and thinking and being creative, and you felt scared, sick, lethargic, worst of all, not wanting to cope. You saw visions of yourself in a straightjacket, and a drain on the family, murdering your mother in actuality, killing the edifice of love and respect built up over the years in the hearts of other people.

My thoughts are crabbed and sallow, My tears like vinegar, Or the bitter blinking yellow Of an acetic star. Tonight the caustic wind, love, Gossips late and soon, And I wear the wry-faced pucker of The sour lemon moon. While like an early summer plum, Puny, green, and tart, Droops upon its wizened stem My lean, unripened heart.

The moon, too, abases her subjects, but in the daytime she is ridiculous. Your dissatisfactions, on the other hand, arrive through the mailslot with loving regularity, white and blank, expansive as carbon monoxide. No day is safe from news of you, walking about in Africa maybe, but thinking of me.

If I have a dry spell ... I wait and live harder, eyes, ears, and heart open, and when the productive time comes, it is that much richer.

Let me sit in a flowerpot, The spiders won't notice. My heart is a stopped geranium.

I hurl my heart to halt his pace.

If you pluck out my heart To find what makes it move, You’ll halt the clock That syncopates our love.

Piece by piece, I fed my wardrobe to the night wind, and flutteringly, like a loved one’s ashes, the gray scraps were ferried off, to settle here, there, exactly where I would never know, in the dark heart of New York.

The blood of love welled up in my heart with a slow pain.

Bright beads of red are rising through the ink, Hearts-blood bubbles smearing out into the black stream

Why do we electrocute men for murdering an individual and then pin a purple heart on them for mass slaughter of someone arbitrarily labeled “enemy?

And I am aware of my heart: it opens and closes Its bowl of red blooms out of sheer love of me.

Every woman adores a Fascist, The boot in the face, the brute Brute heart of a brute like you.

What did my fingers do before they held him? What did my heart do, with its love?

There is a charge For the eyeing of my scars, there is a charge For the hearing of my heart - It really goes. And there is a charge, a very large charge, For a word or a touch Or a bit of blood Or a piece of my hair or my clothes.

O heart, such disorganization!