Wear your heart on your skin in this life.
SYLVIA PLATHI’m sarcastic, skeptical, and sometimes callous because I’m still afraid, deep down, of letting myself be hurt.
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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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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There is a certain unique and strange delight about walking down an empty street alone.
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Please, I want so badly for the good things to happen.
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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 am dead to them, even though I once flowered.
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Please don’t expect me to always be good and kind and loving. There are times when I will be cold and thoughtless and hard to understand.
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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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Go out and do something. It isn’t your room that’s a prison, it’s yourself.
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There is nothing like puking with somebody to make you into old friends.
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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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One thing, I try to be honest. And what is revealed is often rather hideously unflattering.
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We should meet in another life, we should meet in air, me and you.
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Eternity bores me, I never wanted it.
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