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.
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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I love life. But it is hard and I have so much, so very much to learn.
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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 took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart. I am, I am, I am.
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Sometimes I feel like I’m not solid. I’m hollow. There’s nothing behind my eyes. I’m a negative of a person. All I want is blackness, blackness and silence.
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Don’t let the wicked city get you down.
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If you expect nothing from somebody you are never disappointed.
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I feel terribly vulnerable and ‘not-myself’ when I’m not writing.
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I am what I feel and think and do.
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Dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well.
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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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Only I wasn’t steering anything, not even myself.
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I felt wise and cynical as all hell.
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I write only because There is a voice within me That will not be still.
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