The hardest thing, I think, is to live richly in the present, without letting it be tainted and spoiled out of fear for the future or regret for a badly-managed past.
SYLVIA PLATHAnd 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.
More Sylvia Plath Quotes
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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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Tomorrow is another day toward death.
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I dream too much, work too little.
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Compared with me, a tree is immortal.
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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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The truth comes to me. The truth loves me.
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Hour by hour, day by day, life becomes possible.
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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 find myself absolutely fulfilled when I have written a poem.
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It’s a hell of a responsibility to be yourself. It’s much easier to be somebody else or nobody at all.
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Only I wasn’t steering anything, not even myself.
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The abstract kills, the concrete saves.
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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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Dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well.
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I find myself absolutely fulfilled when I have written a poem.
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