Life has been some combination of fairy-tale coincidence and joie de vivre and shocks of beauty together with some hurtful self-questioning.
SYLVIA PLATHWe should meet in another life, we should meet in air, me and you.
More Sylvia Plath Quotes
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The silence depressed me. It wasn’t the silence of silence. It was my own silence.
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Please don’t expect me to always be good and kind and loving. There are times when I will be cold and thoughtless and hard to understand.
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Cheers for spring; for life; for a growing soul.
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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 am terrified by this dark thing that sleeps in me.
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Everything in life is writable.
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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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Sometimes I feel like I’m not solid. I’m hollow. There’s nothing behind my eyes. I’m a negative of a person. All I want is blackness, blackness and silence.
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I want to be able to sleep in an open field, to travel west, to walk freely at night.
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It is awful to want to go away and to want to go nowhere.
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I want so obviously, so desperately to be loved, and to be capable of love.
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Aloneness and selfness are too important to betray for company.
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Love life day by day, color by color, touch by touch.
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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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Before I give my body, I must give my thoughts, my mind, my dreams.
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Only I wasn’t steering anything, not even myself.
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Tomorrow is another day toward death.
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Compared with me, a tree is immortal.
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Love is a shadow. How you lie and cry after it
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I am myself. That is not enough.
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I love life. But it is hard and I have so much, so very much to learn.
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She stared at her reflection in the glossed shop windows as if to make sure, moment by moment, that she continued to exist.
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I find that in a novel I can get more of life, perhaps not such intense life, but certainly more of life than in poetry.
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I am what I feel and think and do.
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I hate handing over money to people for doing what I could just as easily do myself, it makes me nervous.
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If you expect nothing from somebody you are never disappointed.
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