I felt myself melting into the shadows like the negative of a person I’d never seen before in my life.
SYLVIA PLATHI dream too much, work too little.
More Sylvia Plath Quotes
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I desire the things that will destroy me in the end.
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I have a violence in me that is hot as death-blood.
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I didn’t want my picture taken because I was going to cry. I didn’t know why I was going to cry, but I knew that if anybody spoke to me or looked at me too closely the tears would fly out of my eyes and the sobs would fly out of my throat and I’d cry for a week.
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I must get my soul back from you; I am killing my flesh without it.
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I talk to God but the sky is empty.
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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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I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in life.
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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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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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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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I want so obviously, so desperately to be loved, and to be capable of love.
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The trouble was, I had been inadequate all along, I simply hadn’t thought about it.
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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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The abstract kills, the concrete saves.
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I feel terribly vulnerable and ‘not-myself’ when I’m not writing.
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