I love life. But it is hard and I have so much, so very much to learn.
SYLVIA PLATHHour by hour, day by day, life becomes possible.
More Sylvia Plath Quotes
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What I fear most, I think, is the death of the imagination.
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I write only because There is a voice within me That will not be still.
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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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The silence depressed me. It wasn’t the silence of silence. It was my own silence.
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Perfection is terrible, it cannot have children.
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I like people too much or not at all. I’ve got to go down deep, to fall into people, to really know them.
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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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The trouble was, I had been inadequate all along, I simply hadn’t thought about it.
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The sheets grow heavy as a lecher’s kiss.
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Only I wasn’t steering anything, not even myself.
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So much working, reading, thinking, living to do! A lifetime is not long enough.
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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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As a poet, one lives a bit on air. I always like someone who can teach me something practical.
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I felt myself melting into the shadows like the negative of a person I’d never seen before in my life.
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If the body is a temple, then tattoos are its stained glass windows.
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