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.
SYLVIA PLATHSo learn about life. Cut yourself a big slice with the silver server, a big slice of pie. Open your eyes. Let life happen.
More Sylvia Plath Quotes
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I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in life.
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The abstract kills, the concrete saves.
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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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When you give someone your whole heart and he doesn’t want it, you cannot take it back. It’s gone forever.
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Let me live, love and say it well in good sentences.
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I like people too much or not at all. I’ve got to go down deep, to fall into people, to really know them.
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Compared with me, a tree is immortal.
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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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Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously close to wanting nothing.
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If you expect nothing from somebody you are never disappointed.
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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 want to be able to sleep in an open field, to travel west, to walk freely at night.
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I felt myself melting into the shadows like the negative of a person I’d never seen before in my life.
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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 find myself absolutely fulfilled when I have written a poem.
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