I feel terribly vulnerable and ‘not-myself’ when I’m not writing.
SYLVIA PLATHOpinions are like orgasms, mine matters most and I really don’t care if you have one.
More Sylvia Plath Quotes
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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 must get my soul back from you; I am killing my flesh without it.
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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 smile, now, thinking: we all like to think we are important enough to need psychiatrists.
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Love is a shadow. How you lie and cry after it
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I have stitched life into me like a rare organ.
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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 have never found anybody who could stand to accept the daily demonstrative love I feel in me, and give back as good as I give.
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I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart. I am, I am, I am.
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Perfection is terrible, it cannot have children.
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The abstract kills, the concrete saves.
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I felt overstuffed and dull and disappointed, the way I always do the day after Christmas.
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The constant struggle in mature life, I think, is to accept the necessity of tragedy and conflict, and not to try to escape to some falsely simple solution which does not include these more somber complexities.
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Perhaps some day I’ll crawl back home, beaten, defeated. But not as long as I can make stories out of my heartbreak, beauty out of sorrow.
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