The trouble was, I had been inadequate all along, I simply hadn’t thought about it.
SYLVIA PLATHDon’t let the wicked city get you down.
More Sylvia Plath Quotes
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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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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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I have never found anybody who could stand to accept the daily demonstrative love I feel in me, and give back as good as I give.
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I felt my lungs inflate with the onrush of scenery – air, mountains, trees, people. I thought, This is what it is to be happy.
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People or stars Regard me sadly, I disappoint them.
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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 find myself absolutely fulfilled when I have written a poem.
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The abstract kills, the concrete saves.
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I am not cruel, only truthful.
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Kiss me, and you will see how important I am.
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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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I write only because There is a voice within me That will not be still.
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The sheets grow heavy as a lecher’s kiss.
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I have the choice of being constantly active and happy or introspectively passive and sad. Or I can go mad by ricocheting in between.
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So much working, reading, thinking, living to do! A lifetime is not long enough.
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