What I fear most, I think, is the death of the imagination.
SYLVIA PLATHI smile, now, thinking: we all like to think we are important enough to need psychiatrists.
More Sylvia Plath Quotes
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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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If the body is a temple, then tattoos are its stained glass windows.
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A man’s world is different from a woman’s world and a man’s emotions are different from a woman’s emotions and only marriage can bring the two different sets of emotions together properly.
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I have never found anybody who could stand to accept the daily demonstrative love I feel in me, and give back as good as I give.
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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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The abstract kills, the concrete saves.
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It is so much safer not to feel, not to let the world touch me.
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I find myself absolutely fulfilled when I have written a poem.
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I feel terribly vulnerable and ‘not-myself’ when I’m not writing.
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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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Love is a shadow. How you lie and cry after it
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I am dead to them, even though I once flowered.
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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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I felt overstuffed and dull and disappointed, the way I always do the day after Christmas.
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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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