It is awful to want to go away and to want to go nowhere.
SYLVIA PLATHI have the choice of being constantly active and happy or introspectively passive and sad. Or I can go mad by ricocheting in between.
More Sylvia Plath Quotes
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I want so obviously, so desperately to be loved, and to be capable of love.
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Dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well.
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The sheets grow heavy as a lecher’s kiss.
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I knew you’d decide to be all right again.
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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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As a poet, one lives a bit on air. I always like someone who can teach me something practical.
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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 smile, now, thinking: we all like to think we are important enough to need psychiatrists.
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The abstract kills, the concrete saves.
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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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I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead; I lift my eyes and all is born again.
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The silence depressed me. It wasn’t the silence of silence. It was my own silence.
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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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I feel terribly vulnerable and ‘not-myself’ when I’m not writing.
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There is something demoralizing about watching two people get more and more crazy about each other, especially when you are the only extra person in the room.
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