I am myself. That is not enough.
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 love my rejection slips. They show me I try.
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The abstract kills, the concrete saves.
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I am dead to them, even though I once flowered.
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Please, I want so badly for the good things to happen.
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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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I hate handing over money to people for doing what I could just as easily do myself, it makes me nervous.
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Love is the bone and sinew of my curse.
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I am terrified by this dark thing that sleeps in me.
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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 knew you’d decide to be all right again.
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I have stitched life into me like a rare organ.
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I desire the things that will destroy me in the end.
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Everything in life is writable.
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Kiss me, and you will see how important I am.
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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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