Wear your heart on your skin in this life.
SYLVIA PLATHThe 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.
More Sylvia Plath Quotes
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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 have the choice of being constantly active and happy or introspectively passive and sad. Or I can go mad by ricocheting in between.
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Aloneness and selfness are too important to betray for company.
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I feel terribly vulnerable and ‘not-myself’ when I’m not writing.
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I woke to the sound of rain.
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I knew you’d decide to be all right 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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How we need another soul to cling to, another body to keep us warm. To rest and trust; to give your soul in confidence: I need this, I need someone to pour myself into.
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I write only because There is a voice within me That will not be still.
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I am what I feel and think and do.
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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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See, the darkness is leaking from the cracks. I cannot contain it. I cannot contain my life.
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I felt overstuffed and dull and disappointed, the way I always do the day after Christmas.
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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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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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