Life has been some combination of fairy-tale coincidence and joie de vivre and shocks of beauty together with some hurtful self-questioning.
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 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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Love is a shadow. How you lie and cry after it
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I feel terribly vulnerable and ‘not-myself’ when I’m not writing.
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I write only because There is a voice within me That will not be still.
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I have never found anybody who could stand to accept the daily demonstrative love I feel in me, and give back as good as I give.
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It is awful to want to go away and to want to go nowhere.
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I dream too much, work too little.
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I felt overstuffed and dull and disappointed, the way I always do the day after Christmas.
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Intoxicated with madness, I’m in love with my sadness.
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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 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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What I fear most, I think, is the death of the imagination.
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I love life. But it is hard and I have so much, so very much to learn.
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I felt overstuffed and dull and disappointed, the way I always do the day after Christmas.
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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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