After all, we are nothing more or less than we choose to reveal.
SYLVIA PLATHI find that in a novel I can get more of life, perhaps not such intense life, but certainly more of life than in poetry.
More Sylvia Plath Quotes
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I smile, now, thinking: we all like to think we are important enough to need psychiatrists.
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I didn’t want my picture taken because I was going to cry. I didn’t know why I was going to cry, but I knew that if anybody spoke to me or looked at me too closely the tears would fly out of my eyes and the sobs would fly out of my throat and I’d cry for a week.
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Eternity bores me, I never wanted it.
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I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart. I am, I am, I am.
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Cheers for spring; for life; for a growing soul.
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Tomorrow is another day toward death.
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Before I give my body, I must give my thoughts, my mind, my dreams.
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What horrifies me most is the idea of being useless: well-educated, brilliantly promising, and fading out into an indifferent middle age.
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Compared with me, a tree is immortal.
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Sometimes I feel like I’m not solid. I’m hollow. There’s nothing behind my eyes. I’m a negative of a person. All I want is blackness, blackness and silence.
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I love my rejection slips. They show me I try.
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Please, I want so badly for the good things to happen.
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As a poet, one lives a bit on air. I always like someone who can teach me something practical.
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If the body is a temple, then tattoos are its stained glass windows.
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I find that in a novel I can get more of life, perhaps not such intense life, but certainly more of life than in poetry.
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