Citations de Sylvia Plath

En anglais : " The silence depressed me. It wasn't the silence of silence. It was my own silence." ( The Bell Jar)

En anglais : "What I fear most, I think, is the death of the imagination. When the sky outside is merely pink, and the rooftops merely black: the photographic mind which paradoxically tells the truth, but the worthless truth, about the world…If I sit still and don't do anything, the world goes on beating like a slack drum, without meaning. We must be moving, working, making dreams to run toward; the poverty of life without dreams is too horrible to imagine: it is that kind of madness which is worst: the kind with fancies and hallucinations would be a bosch-ish relief."

En anglais : "I am inhabited by a cry.
Nightly it flaps out
Looking, with its hooks, for something to love.

I am terrified by this dark thing
That sleeps in me;"

En anglais : "I desire the things that will destroy me in the end."

En anglais : "The thought that I might kill myself formed in my mind coolly as a tree or a flower."

En anglais : " 'There is nothing like puking with somebody to make you into old friends."

extrait : "Chez moi le présent c'est pour l'éternité, et l'éternité ça bouge tout le temps, ça fond et ça coule. Cette seconde, c'est la vie. Et quand elle est passée, elle est morte. Mais on ne peut pas recommencer à chaque nouvelles seconde, il faut partir de ce qui est mort. C'est comme les sables mouvants... sans espoir dès le départ."

En anglais : "With me, the present is forever, and forever is always shifting, flowing, melting. This second is life. And when it is gone it is dead. But you can't start over with each new second. You have to judge by what is dead. It's like quicksand... hopeless from the start. "

En anglais : "Writing is a religious act: it is an ordering, a reforming, a relearning and reloving of people and the world as they are and as they might be. A shaping which does not pass away like a day of typing or a day of teaching. The writing lasts: it goes about on its own in the world. People read it: react to it as to a person, a philosophy, a religion, a flower: they like it, or do not. It helps them, or it does not. It feels to intensify living: you give more, probe, ask, look, learn, and shape this: you get more: monsters, answers, color and form, knowledge. "

Extrait : "Si vouloir au même moment deux choses qui s'excluent mutuellement, c'est être névrosé, alors je suis névrosée jusqu'à l'os. Je naviguerai entre deux choses qui s'excluent mutuellement jusqu'à la fin de mes jours."

En anglais : "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."