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.
SYLVIA PLATHI find myself absolutely fulfilled when I have written a poem.
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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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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I knew you’d decide to be all right again.
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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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My mother said the cure for thinking too much about yourself was helping somebody who was worse off than you.
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The trouble was, I had been inadequate all along, I simply hadn’t thought about it.
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I have stitched life into me like a rare organ.
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I write only because There is a voice within me That will not be still.
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Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously close to wanting nothing.
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Every day is precious and I feel infinitely sad at this time melting away from me.
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I felt overstuffed and dull and disappointed, the way I always do the day after Christmas.
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I want to be important. By being different. And these girls are all the same.
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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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I felt my lungs inflate with the onrush of scenery – air, mountains, trees, people. I thought, This is what it is to be happy.
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