I have a violence in me that is hot as death-blood.
SYLVIA PLATHWe must be moving, working, making dreams to run toward; the poverty of life without dreams is too horrible to imagine.
More Sylvia Plath Quotes
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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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As a poet, one lives a bit on air. I always like someone who can teach me something practical.
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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.
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I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead; I lift my eyes and all is born again.
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Opinions are like orgasms, mine matters most and I really don’t care if you have one.
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What I fear most, I think, is the death of the imagination.
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Only I wasn’t steering anything, not even myself.
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Love life day by day, color by color, touch by touch.
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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 am myself. That is not enough.
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Every day is precious and I feel infinitely sad at this time melting away from me.
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I felt wise and cynical as all hell.
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Wear your heart on your skin in this life.
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I find myself absolutely fulfilled when I have written a poem.
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I feel terribly vulnerable and ‘not-myself’ when I’m not writing.
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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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I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in life.
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It’s a hell of a responsibility to be yourself. It’s much easier to be somebody else or nobody at all.
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We must be moving, working, making dreams to run toward; the poverty of life without dreams is too horrible to imagine.
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I woke to the sound of rain.
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I love my rejection slips. They show me I try.
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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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Eternity bores me, I never wanted it.
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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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There is nothing like puking with somebody to make you into old friends.
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If you expect nothing from somebody you are never disappointed.
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