I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead; I lift my eyes and all is born again.
SYLVIA PLATHPerfection is terrible, it cannot have children.
More Sylvia Plath Quotes
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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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Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously close to wanting nothing.
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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 have a violence in me that is hot as death-blood.
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I want to write because I have the urge to excel in one medium of translation and expression of life.
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Love life day by day, color by color, touch by touch.
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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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I love my rejection slips. They show me I try.
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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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My mother said the cure for thinking too much about yourself was helping somebody who was worse off than you.
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I want so obviously, so desperately to be loved, and to be capable of love.
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I don’t care about anyone, and the feeling is quite obviously mutual.
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I want so obviously, so desperately to be loved, and to be capable of love.
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If you expect nothing from somebody you are never disappointed.
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The silence depressed me. It wasn’t the silence of silence. It was my own silence.
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