It is so much safer not to feel, not to let the world touch me.
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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As a poet, one lives a bit on air. I always like someone who can teach me something practical.
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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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I hate handing over money to people for doing what I could just as easily do myself, it makes me nervous.
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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 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 don’t care about anyone, and the feeling is quite obviously mutual.
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Don’t let the wicked city get you down.
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Love is the bone and sinew of my curse.
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I talk to God but the sky is empty.
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What I fear most, I think, is the death of the imagination.
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She stared at her reflection in the glossed shop windows as if to make sure, moment by moment, that she continued to exist.
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I want to taste and glory in each day, and never be afraid to experience pain; and never shut myself up in a numb core of nonfeeling, or stop questioning and criticizing life and take the easy way out.
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The silence depressed me. It wasn’t the silence of silence. It was my own silence.
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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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And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.
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