I felt myself melting into the shadows like the negative of a person I’d never seen before in my life.
SYLVIA PLATHWhat I fear most, I think, is the death of the imagination.
More Sylvia Plath Quotes
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I love my rejection slips. They show me I try.
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I am dead to them, even though I once flowered.
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The abstract kills, the concrete saves.
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Love life day by day, color by color, touch by touch.
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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 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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The silence depressed me. It wasn’t the silence of silence. It was my own silence.
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I want so obviously, so desperately to be loved, and to be capable of love.
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The abstract kills, the concrete saves.
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Perhaps some day I’ll crawl back home, beaten, defeated. But not as long as I can make stories out of my heartbreak, beauty out of sorrow.
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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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Perfection is terrible, it cannot have children.
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So much working, reading, thinking, living to do! A lifetime is not long enough.
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I talk to God but the sky is empty.
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There is nothing like puking with somebody to make you into old friends.
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