Sylvia Plath Berühmte Zitate
Briefe nach Hause, 13. April 1957, S. 320
Briefe nach Hause
„Glück zieht wirklich immer noch mehr Glück an, wie ein Magnet.“
Briefe nach Hause, 21. Juli 1957, S. 333
"good fortune really draws more good fortune like a magnet." - p.324
Briefe nach Hause
Die Glasglocke. Neuübersetzung von Reinhard Kaiser 1997. Suhrkamp Frankfurt am Main 2005. Kap. 8, S. 103
Original engl. “If neurotic is wanting two mutually exclusive things at one and the same time, then I'm neurotic as hell. I'll be flying back and forth between one mutually exclusive thing and another for the rest of my days.” - The Bell Jar, Faber and Faber, London 1966, Kap. 8, S. 101
Die Glasglocke
„Sterben // Ist eine Kunst, wie alles. // Ich kann es besonders schön.“
Madame Lazarus, in: Ariel. Gedichte. Englisch und deutsch. Deutsch von Erich Fried. Suhrkamp Frankfurt am Main 1974. S. 21
Original engl. "Dying // Is an art, like everything else. // I do it exceptionally well." - Lady Lazarus, in: Ariel. Gedichte. Englisch und deutsch. Suhrkamp Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1974. S. 20
Sylvia Plath Zitate und Sprüche
„Es muß eine Menge Dinge geben, gegen die ein heißes Bad nicht hilft. Aber ich kenne nicht viele.“
Die Glasglocke.Neuübersetzung von Reinhard Kaiser 1997. Suhrkamp Frankfurt am Main 2005. Kap. 2, S. 26
Original engl. "There must be quite a few things a hot bath won't cure, but I don't know many of them." - The Bell Jar, Faber and Faber, London 1966, Kap. 2, S. 18
Die Glasglocke
„Briefe liebe ich, für Briefe lebe ich.“
Briefe nach Hause, 18. Oktober 1962, S. 505
"I love and live for letters." - p. 471
Briefe nach Hause
„Die internationale Sicht ist die Weltanschauung der Zukunft.“
Briefe nach Hause, 11. Februar 1955, S. 167
"The international outlook is the coming world view, [...]" - p. 162
Briefe nach Hause
„Spanien ist der Himmel auf Erden.“
Briefe nach Hause, 7. Juli 1956, S. 271
Spain is utter heaven. - p. 261
Briefe nach Hause
The Bell Jar
Sylvia Plath: Zitate auf Englisch
“Perfection is terrible, it cannot have children.”
"The Munich Mannequins" http://www.angelfire.com/tn/plath/munich.html
Ariel (1965)
Quelle: The Collected Poems
“If there's anything I look down on, it's a man in a blue outfit.”
Quelle: The Bell Jar
“I didn't really see why people should look at me. Plenty of people looked queerer than I did.”
Quelle: The Bell Jar
Quelle: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
“The silence between us was so profound I thought part of it must be my fault.”
Quelle: The Bell Jar
“But writing poems and letters doesn't seem to do much good.”
Quelle: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
“To annihilate the world by annihilation of oneself is the deluded height of desperate egoism.”
Quelle: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
“I am made, crudely, for success.”
1958-04-22
The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath (2000)
Quelle: The Collected Poems
“I love the people,' I said. 'I have room in me for love, and for ever so many little lives.”
Quelle: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
“The only thing I could think of was turkey neck and turkey gizzards and I felt very depressed.”
Quelle: The Bell Jar (1963), Ch. 6
Kontext: Then he just stood there in front of me and I kept on staring at him. The only thing I could think of was turkey neck and turkey gizzards and I felt very depressed.
“Secretly, in studies and attics and schoolrooms all over America, people must be writing.”
Quelle: The Bell Jar
“I laid my face to the smooth face of the marble and howled my loss into the cold salt rain.”
Quelle: The Bell Jar
“The day I went into physics class it was death.”
Quelle: The Bell Jar
Quelle: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
Quelle: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
“The sky leans on me, me, the one upright among all horizontals.”
Quelle: Crossing the Water