I have a violence in me that is hot as death-blood.
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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I felt overstuffed and dull and disappointed, the way I always do the day after Christmas.
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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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I have never found anybody who could stand to accept the daily demonstrative love I feel in me, and give back as good as I give.
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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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Go out and do something. It isn’t your room that’s a prison, it’s yourself.
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I want to write because I have the urge to excel in one medium of translation and expression of life.
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I find myself absolutely fulfilled when I have written a poem.
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The silence depressed me. It wasn’t the silence of silence. It was my own silence.
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What I fear most, I think, is the death of the imagination.
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Aloneness and selfness are too important to betray for company.
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Eternity bores me, I never wanted it.
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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 dream too much, work too little.
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If you expect nothing from somebody you are never disappointed.
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I smile, now, thinking: we all like to think we are important enough to need psychiatrists.
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