I find myself absolutely fulfilled when I have written a poem.
SYLVIA PLATHThe trouble was, I had been inadequate all along, I simply hadn’t thought about it.
More Sylvia Plath Quotes
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It is awful to want to go away and to want to go nowhere.
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See, the darkness is leaking from the cracks. I cannot contain it. I cannot contain my life.
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I want to write because I have the urge to excel in one medium of translation and expression of life.
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It’s a hell of a responsibility to be yourself. It’s much easier to be somebody else or nobody at all.
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There is a certain unique and strange delight about walking down an empty street alone.
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There is nothing like puking with somebody to make you into old friends.
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I find myself absolutely fulfilled when I have written a poem.
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Everything in life is writable.
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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 didn’t want my picture taken because I was going to cry. I didn’t know why I was going to cry, but I knew that if anybody spoke to me or looked at me too closely the tears would fly out of my eyes and the sobs would fly out of my throat and I’d cry for a week.
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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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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 feel terribly vulnerable and ‘not-myself’ when I’m not writing.
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I don’t care about anyone, and the feeling is quite obviously mutual.
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After all, we are nothing more or less than we choose to reveal.
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