Sylvia Plath

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. "