I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart. I am, I am, I am.
SYLVIA PLATHThe abstract kills, the concrete saves.
More Sylvia Plath Quotes
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I am myself. That is not enough.
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I desire the things that will destroy me in the end.
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Dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well.
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Cheers for spring; for life; for a growing soul.
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What I fear most, I think, is the death of the imagination.
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See, the darkness is leaking from the cracks. I cannot contain it. I cannot contain my life.
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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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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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I find myself absolutely fulfilled when I have written a poem.
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I am what I feel and think and do.
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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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I find that in a novel I can get more of life, perhaps not such intense life, but certainly more of life than in poetry.
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I dream too much, work too little.
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Perfection is terrible, it cannot have children.
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The silence depressed me. It wasn’t the silence of silence. It was my own silence.
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