I am dead to them, even though I once flowered.
SYLVIA PLATHI find myself absolutely fulfilled when I have written a poem.
More Sylvia Plath Quotes
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I have stitched life into me like a rare organ.
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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 dream too much, work too little.
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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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Tomorrow is another day toward death.
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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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The abstract kills, the concrete saves.
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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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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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The abstract kills, the concrete saves.
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I must get my soul back from you; I am killing my flesh without it.
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Every day is precious and I feel infinitely sad at this time melting away from me.
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Wear your heart on your skin in this life.
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I have a violence in me that is hot as death-blood.
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I love life. But it is hard and I have so much, so very much to learn.
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