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Sylvia Movie Quotes

Sylvia [to Ted, after making love] We're not even two people. Even before we met, we were just these two halves, walking around with big gaping holes in the shape like the other person. And when we found each other we were finally whole. And then it was as if we couldn't stand being happy so we ripped ourselves in half again.

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Sylvia Sometimes I dream the tree, and the tree is my life. One branch is the man I shall marry, and the leaves my children. Another branch is my future as a writer, and each leaf is a poem. Another branch is a good academic career. But as I sit there trying to choose, the leaves bring to turn brown and blow away, until the tree is absolutely bare.

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Sylvia Sometimes I feel like I'm not - solid. I'm hollow. There's - nothing behind my eyes. I'm a negative of a person. Its as if I never - I never thought anything. I never wrote - anything. I never felt anything. All I want is blackness. Blackness and silence.

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Ted A fucking good poem is a weapon. It's... and not like a "pop", it's a bomb. A bloody big bomb!

Sylvia That's why they make children learn them in school. They don't want them messing about with them on their own. I mean, just imagine if a sonnet went off accidentally. Boom.

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Mr. Robinson Mr. Robinson. Mr. Robinson! You forgot this.

[hands him a book of her poems]

Sylvia Oh, thanks. Do you think you might be reviewing it?

Mr. Robinson This? I shouldn't think so. We just got the new Pasternak. Then, Betjeman's out next week and there's an E.E. Cummings in the pipeline. Not in the same league, really, is she? Sylvia...

Sylvia Plath.

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Sylvia You must think I'm some stupid American bitch.

Professor Thomas Oh, not at all. I assumed you were Canadian.

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Al Alvarez Look. One thing I do know about death is it is not a reunion or a homecoming. There's - there's no - your life doesn't flash before you and the missing piece of you clicks into place. It's just - there's just "fuck all"! There's nothing.

Sylvia So, what do you do when your life get's as bad as it can and just keeps getting worse?

Al Alvarez You just keep going.

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[on the phone to the BBC]

Sylvia Don't take such tone of voice with me!

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Ted I'm sorry...

Sylvia What for?

Ted I don't know yet...

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Sylvia No, no! Don't call a doctor. Don't you know what they do? They hook you up to the eastern grid and fill you full of sparks.

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Sylvia Daddy, daddy, you bastard, I'm through.

[from her poetry]

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Al Alvarez Extraordinary. And Lady Lazarus - the one about the failed suicides. The despair. The overpowering sense of foreboding and, yet, without a trace of anger or hysteria or any appeal for sympathy. The - the wealth of imagery. Such horrors; but, expressed with a coolness. Like a - a murderer's confession.

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Al Alvarez Have you got a title for your novel yet?

Sylvia The Bell Jar.

Al Alvarez When is it coming out?

Sylvia The new year.

Al Alvarez Are you going to let me read it?

Sylvia It's a pot boiler.

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Sylvia If you fear something enough, it can make it happen.

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Sylvia What is it that you do?

David Wevill I'm a poet.

Sylvia Huh, so are we.

Ted You're?

Ted Ted Hughes. I'll get some wine.

Sylvia I'm Sylvia Plath.

Assia Wevill Oh, my God, that's...

Ted I gave Assia a copy of your book, "The Colossus."

Assia Wevill It's amazing. Yes, I love your poems. They're very beautiful. They're frightening with this haunting quality. What?

Sylvia No, it's just - that's the best review I've ever gotten.

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Al Alvarez It's a...

Sylvia It's what? What is it? Is it any good?

Al Alvarez Good? God, yes!

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Al Alvarez Sylvia, I know this must have been hard on you.

Sylvia No. I've never been happier and I've never written more. Its as if, now he's gone, I'm free. I can finally write. I wake up between three and four, cause that's the worst time, and I write till dawn. I really feel like God is speaking through me.

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Al Alvarez That Daddy poem, the use of metaphor, the way it builds the end out blackness into an explosion of fury. But, it's just - stunning.

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Al Alvarez They're all bloody civil servants moonlighting as journalists. It's their job to protect the status quo.

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Sylvia Who is she?

Ted She's nobody. A student. She was - in that creative writing class I talked to. She'd written all these poems. I took pity on her. You think I'm fooking her?

Sylvia Are you?

Ted Oh, for Christ sake! This place is really getting to you, isn't it? This bunch of dried up, malicious old women who think their men are gonna get taste for fresh meat! As a matter of fact, I'm not fooking her. But, if I do start fookin' the students, you'll be the first to know.

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Sylvia The truth comes to me. The truth loves me.

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Sylvia I'm just so on edge. I'm just so on edge. Oh, God, it's all my fault. It's all my fault. It's all my fault.

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Professor Thomas Look, do you want me to call someone?

Sylvia No. No, I was just having - I just had the most beautiful dream.

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Sylvia [final lines] The box is locked. It is dangerous. There are no windows so I can't see what is in there. There is only a little grid. No exit.

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Sylvia I'm thinking of taking a lover.

Al Alvarez Oh, how glamorous. Who is he?

Sylvia [Sylvia stares at Al, half-smiling]

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[about the cows on the river bank]

Sylvia How do you think they prefer Milton or Chaucer?

Ted Chaucer obviously!

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Professor Thomas There's been a power cut. The moment you need heat and light, to sustain life itself, the government cuts the electricity.

Sylvia Why?

Professor Thomas To build a national character!

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[first lines]

Sylvia Dying is an art. Like everything else. I do it exceptionally well. I do it so it feels like Hell. I do it so it feels real. I guess you could say I've a call.

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Sylvia Did you ever have something that you wanted to erase?

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Sylvia I was dead. Only, I rose up again. Like Lazarus. Lady Lazarus. That's me.