There is a certain unique and strange delight about walking down an empty street alone.
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 shut my eyes and all the world drops dead; I lift my eyes and all is born again.
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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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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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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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Compared with me, a tree is immortal.
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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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Aloneness and selfness are too important to betray for company.
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I want so obviously, so desperately to be loved, and to be capable of love.
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One thing, I try to be honest. And what is revealed is often rather hideously unflattering.
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After all, we are nothing more or less than we choose to reveal.
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It is awful to want to go away and to want to go nowhere.
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I am what I feel and think and do.
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She stared at her reflection in the glossed shop windows as if to make sure, moment by moment, that she continued to exist.
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I woke to the sound of rain.
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