I desire the things that will destroy me in the end.
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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If the body is a temple, then tattoos are its stained glass windows.
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We must be moving, working, making dreams to run toward; the poverty of life without dreams is too horrible to imagine.
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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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Only I wasn’t steering anything, not even myself.
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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 am what I feel and think and do.
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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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She stared at her reflection in the glossed shop windows as if to make sure, moment by moment, that she continued to exist.
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Wear your heart on your skin in this life.
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I felt myself melting into the shadows like the negative of a person I’d never seen before in my life.
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Aloneness and selfness are too important to betray for company.
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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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I want to be able to sleep in an open field, to travel west, to walk freely at night.
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I am too pure for you or anyone.
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