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.
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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I am what I feel and think and do.
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There is nothing like puking with somebody to make you into old friends.
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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.
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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 have stitched life into me like a rare organ.
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Eternity bores me, I never wanted it.
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Wear your heart on your skin in this life.
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I am dead to them, even though I once flowered.
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I knew you’d decide to be all right again.
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It is awful to want to go away and to want to go nowhere.
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The truth comes to me. The truth loves me.
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The constant struggle in mature life, I think, is to accept the necessity of tragedy and conflict, and not to try to escape to some falsely simple solution which does not include these more somber complexities.
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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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Let me live, love and say it well in good sentences.
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Compared with me, a tree is immortal.
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