Sylvia Plath Trying Quotations

Hurl yourself at goals above your head and bear the lacerations that come when you slip and make a fool of yourself. Try always, as long as you have breath in your body, to take the hard way–and work, work, work to build yourself into a rich, continually evolving entity.

To look at her, you might not guess that inside she is laughing and crying, at her own stupidities and luckiness, and at the strange enigmatic ways of the world which she will spend lifetime trying to learn and understand.

So you got rid of your astonishment that someone could write so much more dynamically than you. You stopped cherishing your aloneness and poetic differentness to your delicately flat little bosom. You said: she's to good to forget. How about making her a friend and competitor — you could learn alot from her. So you'll try. So maybe she'll laugh in your face. So maybe she'll beat you hollow in the end. So anyhow, you'll try, and maybe, possibly, she can stand you. Here's hoping!

I think I am worthwhile just because I have optical nerves and can try to put down what they perceive. What a fool!

If only I knew what I wanted I could try to see about getting it.

One thing, I try to be honest. And what is revealed is often rather hideously unflattering.

I love my rejection slips. They show me I try.

Why can’t I try on different lives, like dresses, to see which fits best and is more becoming?