Every day is precious and I feel infinitely sad at this time melting away from me.
SYLVIA PLATHI must get my soul back from you; I am killing my flesh without it.
More Sylvia Plath Quotes
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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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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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As a poet, one lives a bit on air. I always like someone who can teach me something practical.
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If the body is a temple, then tattoos are its stained glass windows.
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I talk to God but the sky is empty.
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I want to be important. By being different. And these girls are all the same.
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I write only because There is a voice within me That will not be still.
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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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So learn about life. Cut yourself a big slice with the silver server, a big slice of pie. Open your eyes. Let life happen.
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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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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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I am terrified by this dark thing that sleeps in me.
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The abstract kills, the concrete saves.
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I am not cruel, only truthful.
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I love my rejection slips. They show me I try.
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