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Sylvia Plath

✵ 27. Oktober 1932 – 11. Februar 1963   •   Andere Namen سیلویا پلات
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Sylvia Plath Berühmte Zitate

„„Wenn es neurotisch ist, daß man zwei Dinge, die sich gegenseitig ausschließen, gleichzeitig will, dann bin ich allerdings verdammt neurotisch. Für den Rest meiner Tage werde ich zwischen Dingen, die sich gegenseitig ausschließen, hin- und herfliegen.“ - Die Glasglocke. Neuübersetzung von Reinhard Kaiser 1997. Suhrkamp Frankfurt am Main 2005. Kap. 8, S. 103“

Sylvia Plath

„Alles, was man tun muss, um seine Begabung durchzusetzen, ist dauerhaft und intensiv nachzudenken und im Schweiße seines Angesichts zu arbeiten, ohne Unterlass.“

Sylvia Plath

Briefe nach Hause, 13. April 1957, S. 320
Briefe nach Hause

„Glück zieht wirklich immer noch mehr Glück an, wie ein Magnet.“

Sylvia Plath

Briefe nach Hause, 21. Juli 1957, S. 333
"good fortune really draws more good fortune like a magnet." - p.324
Briefe nach Hause

„Wenn es neurotisch ist, daß man zwei Dinge, die sich gegenseitig ausschließen, gleichzeitig will, dann bin ich allerdings verdammt neurotisch. Für den Rest meiner Tage werde ich zwischen Dingen, die sich gegenseitig ausschließen, hin- und herfliegen.“

Sylvia Plath buch Die Glasglocke

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.“

Sylvia Plath

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.“

Sylvia Plath buch Die Glasglocke

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.“

Sylvia Plath

Briefe nach Hause, 18. Oktober 1962, S. 505
"I love and live for letters." - p. 471
Briefe nach Hause

Über Leben , Über Liebe

„Die internationale Sicht ist die Weltanschauung der Zukunft.“

Sylvia Plath

Briefe nach Hause, 11. Februar 1955, S. 167
"The international outlook is the coming world view, [...]" - p. 162
Briefe nach Hause

Zukunft

„Spanien ist der Himmel auf Erden.“

Sylvia Plath

Briefe nach Hause, 7. Juli 1956, S. 271
Spain is utter heaven. - p. 261
Briefe nach Hause

„Es kam mir vor, als müsse Schatten das Schönste auf der Welt sein, die Millionen beweglicher Formen und Sackgassen des Schattens. Schatten fand sich in Kommodenschubladen, Wandschränken, Koffern, und Schatten fand sich unter Häusern, Bäumen, Steinen, auch fand sich Schatten ganz hinten in den Augen und im Lächeln der Leute, und Schatten, Meilen und Meilen von Schatten, fand sich auf der Nachtseite der Erde.“

Sylvia Plath buch Die Glasglocke

The Bell Jar

Baum , Über Lächeln , Über die Welt

Sylvia Plath: Zitate auf Englisch

“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.”

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Sylvia Plath

“I wanted to do everything once and for all and be through with it.”

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Sylvia Plath buch Die Glasglocke

Quelle: The Bell Jar

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

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Sylvia Plath

Quelle: Drei Frauen: Ein Gedicht für drei Stimmen

“What I cannot forgive is dishonesty - and no matter what, or how hard, I would rather know the truth of which I today had such a clear & devastating vision from his mouth than hear foul evasions, blurrings and rattiness.”

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Sylvia Plath

Quelle: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

“It was a queer, sultry summer, the summer they electrocuted the Rosenbergs, and I didn't know what I was doing in New York.”

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Sylvia Plath buch Die Glasglocke

Quelle: The Bell Jar (1963), Ch. 1, Opening line

“I self-paralyze myself & wonder what I've got in my head.”

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Sylvia Plath

Quelle: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

“I hated to serve men in any way.”

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Sylvia Plath buch Die Glasglocke

Quelle: The Bell Jar

“I inhabit the wax image of myself, a doll's body. Sickness begins here; I am a dartboard for witches.”

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Sylvia Plath

“When they asked some old Roman philosopher or other how he wanted to die, he said he would open his veins in a warm bath. I thought it would be easy, lying in the tub and seeing the redness flower from my wrists, flush after flush through the clear water, till I sank to sleep under a surface gaudy as poppies. But when it came right down to it, the skin of my wrist looked so white and defenseless that I couldn't do it. It was as if what I wanted to kill wasn't in that skin or the thin blue pulse that jumped under my thumb, but somewhere else, deeper, more secret, and a whole lot harder to get at.”

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Sylvia Plath buch Die Glasglocke

Quelle: The Bell Jar (1963), Ch. 12

“It's a tango." Marco maneuvered me out among the dancers. "I love tangos." "I can't dance." "You don't have to dance. I'll do that dancing." Marco hooked an arm around my waist and jerked me up against his dazzling white suit. Then he said, "Pretend you are drowning." I shut my eyes, and the music broke over me like a rainstorm. Marco's leg slid forward against mine and my leg slid back and I seemed to be riveted against him, limb for limb, moving as he moved, without any will or knowledge of my own, and after a while I thought, "It doesn't take two to dance, it only takes one," and I let myself blow and bend like a tree in the wind. "What did I tell you?”

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Sylvia Plath buch Die Glasglocke

Marco's breath scorched my ear. "You're a perfectly respectable dancer."
Quelle: The Bell Jar (1963), Ch. 9

“You said you would kill it this morning.
Do not kill it. It startles me still,
The jut of that odd, dark head, pacing

Through the uncut grass on the elm's hill.
It is something to own a pheasant,
Or just to be visited at all.

I am not mystical: it isn't
As if I thought it had a spirit.
It is simply in its element.

That gives it a kingliness, a right.”

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"Pheasant" http://www.angelfire.com/tn/plath/pheasant.html
Winter Trees (1972)

“Darling, all night
I have been flickering, off, on, off, on.
The sheets grow heavy as a lecher's kiss.”

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Sylvia Plath Ariel

"Fever 103" http://www.angelfire.com/tn/plath/103.html
Ariel (1965)

“These poems do not live: it's a sad diagnosis.
They grew their toes and fingers well enough,
Their little foreheads bulged with concentration.
If they missed out on walking about like people
It wasn't for any lack of mother-love.”

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Sylvia Plath buch Crossing the Water

"Stillborn" http://www.angelfire.com/tn/plath/still.html
Crossing the Water (1971)

“The woman is perfected
Her dead

Body wears the smile of accomplishment,
The illusion of a Greek necessity

Flows in the scrolls of her toga,
Her bare

Feet seem to be saying:
We have come so far, it is over.

Each dead child coiled, a white serpent,
One at each little

Pitcher of milk, now empty.
She has folded

Them back into her body as petals
Of a rose close when the garden

Stiffens and odors bleed
From the sweet, deep throats of the night flower.

The moon has nothing to be sad about,
Staring from her hood of bone.

She is used to this sort of thing.
Her blacks crackle and drag.”

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Sylvia Plath Ariel

"Edge" http://www.angelfire.com/tn/plath/edge.html
Ariel (1965)

“Later Buddy told me the woman was on a drug that would make her forget she'd had any pain and that when she swore and groaned she really didn't know what she was doing because she was in a kind of twilight sleep. I thought it sounded just like the sort of drug a man would invent. Here was a woman in terrible pain, obviously feeling every bit of it or she wouldn't groan like that, and she would go straight home and start another baby, because the drug would make her forget how bad the pain had been, when all the time, in some secret part of her, that long, blind, doorless and windowless corridor of pain was waiting to open up and shut her in again.”

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Sylvia Plath buch Die Glasglocke

Quelle: The Bell Jar (1963), Ch. 6

“"Does she know you love her?" "Of course." I paused. The obstacle seemed unreal to me. "If you love her," I said, "you'll love somebody else someday."”

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Sylvia Plath buch Die Glasglocke

Quelle: The Bell Jar (1963), Ch. 9

“Ironically, Henry James' biography comforts me & I long to make known to him his posthumous reputation — he wrote, in pain, gave all his life (which is more than I could think of doing — I have Ted, will have children — but few friends) & the critics insulted & mocked him, readers didn't read him.”

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Sylvia Plath

1958-04-22
The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath (2000)

“I am incapable of more knowledge.
What is this, this face
So murderous in its strangle of branches? —

Its snaky acids hiss.
It petrifies the will. These are the isolate, slow faults,
That kill, that kill, that kill.”

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Sylvia Plath Ariel

"Elm"
Ariel (1965)

“Axes
After whose stroke the wood rings,
And the echoes!
Echoes travelling
Off from the centre like horses.”

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Sylvia Plath Ariel

"Words" http://www.angelfire.com/tn/plath/words.html
Ariel (1965)

“You do not do, you do not do
Any more, black shoe
In which I have lived like a foot
For thirty years, poor and white,
Barely daring to breathe or Achoo.”

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Sylvia Plath Ariel

"Daddy" http://www.angelfire.com/tn/plath/daddy.html
Ariel (1965)

“Now I am a lake. A woman bends over me,
Searching my reaches for what she really is.
Then she turns to those liars, the candles or the moon.
I see her back, and reflect it faithfully.
She rewards me with tears and an agitation of hands.
I am important to her. She comes and goes.
Each morning it is her face that replaces the darkness.
In me she has drowned a young girl, and in me an old woman
Rises toward her day after day, like a terrible fish.”

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Sylvia Plath buch Crossing the Water

"Mirror" http://www.angelfire.com/tn/plath/mirror.html
Crossing the Water (1971)

“So many of us!
So many of us!

We are shelves, we are
Tables, we are meek,
We are edible,

Nudgers and shovers
In spite of ourselves.
Our kind multiplies:

We shall by morning
Inherit the earth.
Our foot's in the door.”

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Sylvia Plath The Colossus

"Mushrooms" http://www.angelfire.com/tn/plath/mushrooms.html
The Colossus (1960)

“These hills are too green and sweet to have tasted salt.
I follow the sheep path between them. A last hook brings me
To the hills' northern face, and the face is orange rock
That looks out on nothing, nothing but a great space
Of white and pewter lights, and a din like silversmiths
Beating and beating at an intractable metal.”

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Sylvia Plath buch Crossing the Water

"Blackberrying" http://www.angelfire.com/tn/plath/berry.html
Crossing the Water (1971)

“I hate her," I said, and waited for the blow to fall. But Doctor Nolan only smiled at me as if something had pleased her very, very much and said, "I suppose you do.”

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Sylvia Plath buch Die Glasglocke

Quelle: The Bell Jar (1963), Ch. 16

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