I am not cruel, only truthful.
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 felt wise and cynical as all hell.
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I have a violence in me that is hot as death-blood.
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The silence depressed me. It wasn’t the silence of silence. It was my own silence.
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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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A man’s world is different from a woman’s world and a man’s emotions are different from a woman’s emotions and only marriage can bring the two different sets of emotions together properly.
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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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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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Perfection is terrible, it cannot have children.
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My mother said the cure for thinking too much about yourself was helping somebody who was worse off than you.
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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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Love life day by day, color by color, touch by touch.
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So much working, reading, thinking, living to do! A lifetime is not long enough.
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I want to be able to sleep in an open field, to travel west, to walk freely at night.
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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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Intoxicated with madness, I’m in love with my sadness.
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