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 PLATHDon’t let the wicked city get you down.
More Sylvia Plath Quotes
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The silence depressed me. It wasn’t the silence of silence. It was my own silence.
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If you expect nothing from somebody you are never disappointed.
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I am not cruel, only truthful.
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I don’t care about anyone, and the feeling is quite obviously mutual.
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I want so obviously, so desperately to be loved, and to be capable of love.
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Don’t let the wicked city get you down.
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I talk to God but the sky is empty.
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Aloneness and selfness are too important to betray for company.
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I find myself absolutely fulfilled when I have written a poem.
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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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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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So much working, reading, thinking, living to do! A lifetime is not long enough.
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I have stitched life into me like a rare organ.
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And 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.
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I woke to the sound of rain.
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