I find myself absolutely fulfilled when I have written a poem.
SYLVIA PLATHPeople or stars Regard me sadly, I disappoint them.
More Sylvia Plath Quotes
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People or stars Regard me sadly, I disappoint them.
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Perfection is terrible, it cannot have children.
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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 talk to God but the sky is empty.
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After all, we are nothing more or less than we choose to reveal.
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Tomorrow is another day toward death.
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The silence depressed me. It wasn’t the silence of silence. It was my own silence.
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The truth comes to me. The truth loves me.
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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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Only I wasn’t steering anything, not even myself.
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We must be moving, working, making dreams to run toward; the poverty of life without dreams is too horrible to imagine.
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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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Life has been some combination of fairy-tale coincidence and joie de vivre and shocks of beauty together with some hurtful self-questioning.
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How we need another soul to cling to, another body to keep us warm. To rest and trust; to give your soul in confidence: I need this, I need someone to pour myself into.
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The trouble was, I had been inadequate all along, I simply hadn’t thought about it.
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If you expect nothing from somebody you are never disappointed.
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If you expect nothing from somebody you are never disappointed.
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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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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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Let me live, love and say it well in good sentences.
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Before I give my body, I must give my thoughts, my mind, my dreams.
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Every day is precious and I feel infinitely sad at this time melting away from me.
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If the body is a temple, then tattoos are its stained glass windows.
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So much working, reading, thinking, living to do! A lifetime is not long enough.
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It is awful to want to go away and to want to go nowhere.
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I am not cruel, only truthful.
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