I love my rejection slips. They show me I try.
SYLVIA PLATHI write only because There is a voice within me That will not be still.
More Sylvia Plath Quotes
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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 have stitched life into me like a rare organ.
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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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One thing, I try to be honest. And what is revealed is often rather hideously unflattering.
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I feel terribly vulnerable and ‘not-myself’ when I’m not writing.
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I am too pure for you or anyone.
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It is awful to want to go away and to want to go nowhere.
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I find myself absolutely fulfilled when I have written a poem.
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There is nothing like puking with somebody to make you into old friends.
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The trouble was, I had been inadequate all along, I simply hadn’t thought about it.
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Dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well.
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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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Don’t let the wicked city get you down.
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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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Go out and do something. It isn’t your room that’s a prison, it’s yourself.
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Perfection is terrible, it cannot have children.
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I find that in a novel I can get more of life, perhaps not such intense life, but certainly more of life than in poetry.
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I find myself absolutely fulfilled when I have written a poem.
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I want so obviously, so desperately to be loved, and to be capable of love.
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Love is the bone and sinew of my curse.
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I knew you’d decide to be all right again.
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I’m sarcastic, skeptical, and sometimes callous because I’m still afraid, deep down, of letting myself be hurt.
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The hardest thing, I think, is to live richly in the present, without letting it be tainted and spoiled out of fear for the future or regret for a badly-managed past.
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I dream too much, work too little.
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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 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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