It is awful to want to go away and to want to go nowhere.
SYLVIA PLATHI didn’t want my picture taken because I was going to cry. I didn’t know why I was going to cry, but I knew that if anybody spoke to me or looked at me too closely the tears would fly out of my eyes and the sobs would fly out of my throat and I’d cry for a week.
More Sylvia Plath Quotes
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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’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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I didn’t want my picture taken because I was going to cry. I didn’t know why I was going to cry, but I knew that if anybody spoke to me or looked at me too closely the tears would fly out of my eyes and the sobs would fly out of my throat and I’d cry for a week.
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The abstract kills, the concrete saves.
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Cheers for spring; for life; for a growing soul.
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I have stitched life into me like a rare organ.
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I write only because There is a voice within me That will not be still.
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What I fear most, I think, is the death of the imagination.
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A man’s world is different from a woman’s world and a man’s emotions are different from a woman’s emotions and only marriage can bring the two different sets of emotions together properly.
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I find myself absolutely fulfilled when I have written a poem.
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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 don’t care about anyone, and the feeling is quite obviously mutual.
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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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I am myself. That is not enough.
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What horrifies me most is the idea of being useless: well-educated, brilliantly promising, and fading out into an indifferent middle age.
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