Life has been some combination of fairy-tale coincidence and joie de vivre and shocks of beauty together with some hurtful self-questioning.
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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So much working, reading, thinking, living to do! A lifetime is not long enough.
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The silence depressed me. It wasn’t the silence of silence. It was my own silence.
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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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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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I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead; I lift my eyes and all is born again.
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My mother said the cure for thinking too much about yourself was helping somebody who was worse off than you.
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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 sheets grow heavy as a lecher’s kiss.
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I want to taste and glory in each day, and never be afraid to experience pain; and never shut myself up in a numb core of nonfeeling, or stop questioning and criticizing life and take the easy way out.
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I am dead to them, even though I once flowered.
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Eternity bores me, I never wanted it.
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Perhaps some day I’ll crawl back home, beaten, defeated. But not as long as I can make stories out of my heartbreak, beauty out of sorrow.
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Love is a shadow. How you lie and cry after it
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I am not cruel, only truthful.
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Cheers for spring; for life; for a growing soul.
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