How we need another soul to cling to, another body to keep us warm. To rest and trust; to give your soul in confidence: I need this, I need someone to pour myself into.
SYLVIA PLATHLove life day by day, color by color, touch by touch.
More Sylvia Plath Quotes
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Love is a shadow. How you lie and cry after it
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The abstract kills, the concrete saves.
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There is something demoralizing about watching two people get more and more crazy about each other, especially when you are the only extra person in the room.
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I find myself absolutely fulfilled when I have written a poem.
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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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If you expect nothing from somebody you are never disappointed.
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I am too pure for you or anyone.
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The silence depressed me. It wasn’t the silence of silence. It was my own silence.
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One thing, I try to be honest. And what is revealed is often rather hideously unflattering.
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I must get my soul back from you; I am killing my flesh without it.
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The hardest thing, I think, is to live richly in the present, without letting it be tainted and spoiled out of fear for the future or regret for a badly-managed past.
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I write only because There is a voice within me That will not be still.
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I felt myself melting into the shadows like the negative of a person I’d never seen before in my life.
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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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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 smile, now, thinking: we all like to think we are important enough to need psychiatrists.
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Compared with me, a tree is immortal.
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Please, I want so badly for the good things to happen.
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Eternity bores me, I never wanted it.
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Aloneness and selfness are too important to betray for company.
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Hour by hour, day by day, life becomes possible.
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Love is the bone and sinew of my curse.
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Kiss me, and you will see how important I am.
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I find myself absolutely fulfilled when I have written a poem.
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Life has been some combination of fairy-tale coincidence and joie de vivre and shocks of beauty together with some hurtful self-questioning.
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