It is so much safer not to feel, not to let the world touch me.
SYLVIA PLATHI felt my lungs inflate with the onrush of scenery – air, mountains, trees, people. I thought, This is what it is to be happy.
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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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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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 shut my eyes and all the world drops dead; I lift my eyes and all is born again.
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I am not cruel, only truthful.
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I find myself absolutely fulfilled when I have written a poem.
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Love life day by day, color by color, touch by touch.
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Eternity bores me, I never wanted it.
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Compared with me, a tree is immortal.
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The abstract kills, the concrete saves.
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I am terrified by this dark thing that sleeps in me.
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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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Aloneness and selfness are too important to betray for company.
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There is nothing like puking with somebody to make you into old friends.
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Please, I want so badly for the good things to happen.
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