I want to write because I have the urge to excel in one medium of translation and expression of life.
SYLVIA PLATHI am dead to them, even though I once flowered.
More Sylvia Plath Quotes
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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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I felt my lungs inflate with the onrush of scenery – air, mountains, trees, people. I thought, This is what it is to be happy.
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I talk to God but the sky is empty.
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I find myself absolutely fulfilled when I have written a poem.
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If the body is a temple, then tattoos are its stained glass windows.
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Aloneness and selfness are too important to betray for company.
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She stared at her reflection in the glossed shop windows as if to make sure, moment by moment, that she continued to exist.
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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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I felt overstuffed and dull and disappointed, the way I always do the day after Christmas.
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I want so obviously, so desperately to be loved, and to be capable of love.
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Everything in life is writable.
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One thing, I try to be honest. And what is revealed is often rather hideously unflattering.
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And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.
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It is so much safer not to feel, not to let the world touch me.
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I am myself. That is not enough.
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I want so obviously, so desperately to be loved, and to be capable of love.
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Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously close to wanting nothing.
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I have a violence in me that is hot as death-blood.
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I must get my soul back from you; I am killing my flesh without it.
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If you expect nothing from somebody you are never disappointed.
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Intoxicated with madness, I’m in love with my sadness.
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I want to be important. By being different. And these girls are all the same.
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I hate handing over money to people for doing what I could just as easily do myself, it makes me nervous.
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I desire the things that will destroy me in the end.
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Don’t let the wicked city get you down.
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A man’s world is different from a woman’s world and a man’s emotions are different from a woman’s emotions and only marriage can bring the two different sets of emotions together properly.
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