The abstract kills, the concrete saves.
SYLVIA PLATHI love my rejection slips. They show me I try.
More Sylvia Plath Quotes
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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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I dream too much, work too little.
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I have a violence in me that is hot as death-blood.
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I am dead to them, even though I once flowered.
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People or stars Regard me sadly, I disappoint them.
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Love life day by day, color by color, touch by touch.
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Tomorrow is another day toward death.
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I want to be important. By being different. And these girls are all the same.
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I felt overstuffed and dull and disappointed, the way I always do the day after Christmas.
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I smile, now, thinking: we all like to think we are important enough to need psychiatrists.
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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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I find myself absolutely fulfilled when I have written a poem.
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Everything in life is writable.
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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 don’t care about anyone, and the feeling is quite obviously mutual.
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