Sylvia Plath on fall
Sylvia Plath105 quotes“I like people too much or not at all. I’ve got to go down deep, to fall into people, to really know them.”
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I have stitched life into me like a rare organ.
Sylvia PlathSylvia Plath After all, we are nothing more or less than we choose to reveal.
Sylvia PlathSylvia Plath 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.
Sylvia PlathSylvia Plath I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead; I lift my eyes and all is born again.
Sylvia PlathSylvia Plath As a poet, one lives a bit on air. I always like someone who can teach me something practical.
Sylvia PlathSylvia Plath Please don’t expect me to always be good and kind and loving. There are times when I will be cold and thoughtless and hard to understand.
Sylvia PlathSylvia Plath I am terrified by this dark thing that sleeps in me.
Sylvia PlathSylvia Plath 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.
Sylvia PlathSylvia Plath Dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well.
Sylvia PlathSylvia Plath We must be moving, working, making dreams to run toward; the poverty of life without dreams is too horrible to imagine.
Sylvia PlathSylvia Plath When you give someone your whole heart and he doesn’t want it, you cannot take it back. It’s gone forever.
Sylvia PlathSylvia Plath I have a violence in me that is hot as death-blood.
Sylvia PlathSylvia Plath Only I wasn’t steering anything, not even myself.
Sylvia PlathSylvia Plath Every day is precious and I feel infinitely sad at this time melting away from me.
Sylvia PlathSylvia Plath Love is the bone and sinew of my curse.
Sylvia PlathSylvia Plath Everything in life is writable.
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