I felt overstuffed and dull and disappointed, the way I always do the day after Christmas.
SYLVIA PLATHI want to write because I have the urge to excel in one medium of translation and expression of life.
More Sylvia Plath Quotes
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Compared with me, a tree is immortal.
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Life has been some combination of fairy-tale coincidence and joie de vivre and shocks of beauty together with some hurtful self-questioning.
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I want so obviously, so desperately to be loved, and to be capable of love.
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What I fear most, I think, is the death of the imagination.
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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 took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart. I am, I am, I am.
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The sheets grow heavy as a lecher’s kiss.
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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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If you expect nothing from somebody you are never disappointed.
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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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Love is a shadow. How you lie and cry after it
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I talk to God but the sky is empty.
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Love is the bone and sinew of my curse.
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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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After all, we are nothing more or less than we choose to reveal.
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