I want to write because I have the urge to excel in one medium of translation and expression of life.
SYLVIA PLATHI am dead to them, even though I once flowered.
More Sylvia Plath Quotes
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Please, I want so badly for the good things to happen.
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I smile, now, thinking: we all like to think we are important enough to need psychiatrists.
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Go out and do something. It isn’t your room that’s a prison, it’s yourself.
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Before I give my body, I must give my thoughts, my mind, my dreams.
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Everything in life is writable.
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I felt myself melting into the shadows like the negative of a person I’d never seen before in my life.
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I felt wise and cynical as all hell.
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I don’t care about anyone, and the feeling is quite obviously mutual.
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So learn about life. Cut yourself a big slice with the silver server, a big slice of pie. Open your eyes. Let life happen.
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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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Opinions are like orgasms, mine matters most and I really don’t care if you have one.
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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 write only because There is a voice within me That will not be still.
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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 hate handing over money to people for doing what I could just as easily do myself, it makes me nervous.
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I want so obviously, so desperately to be loved, and to be capable of love.
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There is something demoralizing about watching two people get more and more crazy about each other, especially when you are the only extra person in the room.
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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 abstract kills, the concrete saves.
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Dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well.
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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 love life. But it is hard and I have so much, so very much to learn.
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After all, we are nothing more or less than we choose to reveal.
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When you give someone your whole heart and he doesn’t want it, you cannot take it back. It’s gone forever.
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If you expect nothing from somebody you are never disappointed.
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Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously close to wanting nothing.
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