I find that in a novel I can get more of life, perhaps not such intense life, but certainly more of life than in poetry.
SYLVIA PLATHI want to be able to sleep in an open field, to travel west, to walk freely at night.
More Sylvia Plath Quotes
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We should meet in another life, we should meet in air, me and you.
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Eternity bores me, I never wanted it.
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People or stars Regard me sadly, I disappoint them.
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I don’t care about anyone, and the feeling is quite obviously mutual.
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I have a violence in me that is hot as death-blood.
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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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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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I talk to God but the sky is empty.
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There is a certain unique and strange delight about walking down an empty street alone.
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If the body is a temple, then tattoos are its stained glass windows.
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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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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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As a poet, one lives a bit on air. I always like someone who can teach me something practical.
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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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The trouble was, I had been inadequate all along, I simply hadn’t thought about it.
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