I like people too much or not at all. I’ve got to go down deep, to fall into people, to really know them.
SYLVIA PLATHAs a poet, one lives a bit on air. I always like someone who can teach me something practical.
More Sylvia Plath Quotes
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I knew you’d decide to be all right again.
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Wear your heart on your skin in this life.
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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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I am dead to them, even though I once flowered.
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Compared with me, a tree is immortal.
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I am terrified by this dark thing that sleeps in me.
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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 want to write because I have the urge to excel in one medium of translation and expression of life.
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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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I didn’t want my picture taken because I was going to cry. I didn’t know why I was going to cry, but I knew that if anybody spoke to me or looked at me too closely the tears would fly out of my eyes and the sobs would fly out of my throat and I’d cry for a week.
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I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart. I am, I am, I am.
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What I fear most, I think, is the death of the imagination.
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The abstract kills, the concrete saves.
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Kiss me, and you will see how important I am.
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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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