I felt my lungs inflate with the onrush of scenery – air, mountains, trees, people. I thought, This is what it is to be happy.
SYLVIA PLATHI find that in a novel I can get more of life, perhaps not such intense life, but certainly more of life than in poetry.
More Sylvia Plath Quotes
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I don’t care about anyone, and the feeling is quite obviously mutual.
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The sheets grow heavy as a lecher’s kiss.
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I feel terribly vulnerable and ‘not-myself’ when I’m not writing.
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We should meet in another life, we should meet in air, me and you.
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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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I am too pure for you or anyone.
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I’m sarcastic, skeptical, and sometimes callous because I’m still afraid, deep down, of letting myself be hurt.
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I am not cruel, only truthful.
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It is so much safer not to feel, not to let the world touch me.
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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 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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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.
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The trouble was, I had been inadequate all along, I simply hadn’t thought about it.
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As a poet, one lives a bit on air. I always like someone who can teach me something practical.
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There is a certain unique and strange delight about walking down an empty street alone.
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