I have a violence in me that is hot as death-blood.
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.
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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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Compared with me, a tree is immortal.
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I felt overstuffed and dull and disappointed, the way I always do the day after Christmas.
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I am terrified by this dark thing that sleeps in me.
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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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Perhaps some day I’ll crawl back home, beaten, defeated. But not as long as I can make stories out of my heartbreak, beauty out of sorrow.
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I woke to the sound of rain.
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I felt wise and cynical as all hell.
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There is nothing like puking with somebody to make you into old friends.
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I feel terribly vulnerable and ‘not-myself’ when I’m not writing.
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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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I find myself absolutely fulfilled when I have written a poem.
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Let me live, love and say it well in good sentences.
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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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I dream too much, work too little.
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