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As a poet, one lives a bit on air. I always like someone who can teach me something practical.

Sylvia Plath

I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead; I lift my eyes and all is born again.
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Born Drops Eyes Shut World
I have the choice of being constantly active and happy or introspectively passive and sad. Or I can go mad by ricocheting in between.
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Active Choice Constant Happiness Mad Mood Passive Sad
After all, we are nothing more or less than we choose to reveal.
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Choose Inspirational Life Reveal
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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Broken Heart Cry Depression Pain Sad
I must get my soul back from you; I am killing my flesh without it.
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Break Up Flesh Kill Slave Soul
Every day is precious and I feel infinitely sad at this time melting away from me.
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Hurt Infinite Melt Precious Sad
The abstract kills, the concrete saves.
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Abstract Concrete Kill One Liner Save
If you expect nothing from somebody you are never disappointed.
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Deep Disappointment Expectation Relationship
I am dead to them, even though I once flowered.
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Broken Heart Dead Flower Relationship
The constant struggle in mature life, I think, is to accept the necessity of tragedy and conflict, and not to try to escape to some falsely simple solution which does not include these more somber complexities.
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Conflict Constant Escape Life Mature Necessary Solution Struggle Tragedy Try
When you give someone your whole heart and he doesn’t want it, you cannot take it back. It’s gone forever.
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Broken Heart Forever Giving Gone Heart Love Want
One thing, I try to be honest. And what is revealed is often rather hideously unflattering.
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Hide Honesty Reveal Try
The hardest thing, I think, is to live richly in the present, without letting it be tainted and spoiled out of fear for the future or regret for a badly-managed past.
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Fear Feminism Future Live Past Present Regret Rich Spoil
The truth comes to me. The truth loves me.
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Come Love Truth
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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Continue Existence Moments Reflection She Shop Window
I felt overstuffed and dull and disappointed, the way I always do the day after Christmas.
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Always Christmas Disappointment Feeling

As a poet, one lives a bit on air. I always like someone who can teach me something practical.

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