I find myself absolutely fulfilled when I have written a poem.
SYLVIA PLATHMy mother said the cure for thinking too much about yourself was helping somebody who was worse off than you.
More Sylvia Plath Quotes
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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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After all, we are nothing more or less than we choose to reveal.
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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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Cheers for spring; for life; for a growing soul.
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Intoxicated with madness, I’m in love with my sadness.
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Only I wasn’t steering anything, not even myself.
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One thing, I try to be honest. And what is revealed is often rather hideously unflattering.
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Tomorrow is another day toward death.
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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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When you give someone your whole heart and he doesn’t want it, you cannot take it back. It’s gone forever.
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It’s a hell of a responsibility to be yourself. It’s much easier to be somebody else or nobody at all.
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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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Go out and do something. It isn’t your room that’s a prison, it’s yourself.
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I smile, now, thinking: we all like to think we are important enough to need psychiatrists.
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Aloneness and selfness are too important to betray for company.
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