I’m sarcastic, skeptical, and sometimes callous because I’m still afraid, deep down, of letting myself be hurt.
SYLVIA PLATHThere is nothing like puking with somebody to make you into old friends.
More Sylvia Plath Quotes
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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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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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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.
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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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What I fear most, I think, is the death of the imagination.
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Cheers for spring; for life; for a growing soul.
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So much working, reading, thinking, living to do! A lifetime is not long enough.
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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 must get my soul back from you; I am killing my flesh without it.
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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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I write only because There is a voice within me That will not be still.
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I find myself absolutely fulfilled when I have written a poem.
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