The abstract kills, the concrete saves.
SYLVIA PLATHI have a violence in me that is hot as death-blood.
More Sylvia Plath Quotes
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I want so obviously, so desperately to be loved, and to be capable of love.
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What horrifies me most is the idea of being useless: well-educated, brilliantly promising, and fading out into an indifferent middle age.
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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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There is nothing like puking with somebody to make you into old friends.
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I am too pure for you or anyone.
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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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Only I wasn’t steering anything, not even myself.
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Let me live, love and say it well in good sentences.
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I love life. But it is hard and I have so much, so very much to learn.
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The sheets grow heavy as a lecher’s kiss.
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Everything in life is writable.
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If you expect nothing from somebody you are never disappointed.
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I am terrified by this dark thing that sleeps in me.
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Go out and do something. It isn’t your room that’s a prison, it’s yourself.
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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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