As a poet, one lives a bit on air. I always like someone who can teach me something practical.
SYLVIA PLATHI have stitched life into me like a rare organ.
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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I smile, now, thinking: we all like to think we are important enough to need psychiatrists.
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I am not cruel, only truthful.
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If the body is a temple, then tattoos are its stained glass windows.
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I love my rejection slips. They show me I try.
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Love life day by day, color by color, touch by touch.
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I am what I feel and think and do.
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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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Everything in life is writable.
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The trouble was, I had been inadequate all along, I simply hadn’t thought about it.
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Don’t let the wicked city get you down.
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So learn about life. Cut yourself a big slice with the silver server, a big slice of pie. Open your eyes. Let life happen.
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Let me live, love and say it well in good sentences.
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I dream too much, work too little.
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Love is a shadow. How you lie and cry after it
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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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I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead; I lift my eyes and all is born again.
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I want to be important. By being different. And these girls are all the same.
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The abstract kills, the concrete saves.
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I woke to the sound of rain.
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I felt wise and cynical as all hell.
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I knew you’d decide to be all right again.
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Please, I want so badly for the good things to happen.
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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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Compared with me, a tree is immortal.
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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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