As a poet, one lives a bit on air. I always like someone who can teach me something practical.
SYLVIA PLATHEverything in life is writable.
More Sylvia Plath Quotes
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What I fear most, I think, is the death of the imagination.
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There is nothing like puking with somebody to make you into old friends.
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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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I’m sarcastic, skeptical, and sometimes callous because I’m still afraid, deep down, of letting myself be hurt.
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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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Don’t let the wicked city get you down.
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Cheers for spring; for life; for a growing soul.
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People or stars Regard me sadly, I disappoint them.
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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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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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I am terrified by this dark thing that sleeps in me.
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I felt wise and cynical as all hell.
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I find myself absolutely fulfilled when I have written a poem.
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