I have the choice of being constantly active and happy or introspectively passive and sad. Or I can go mad by ricocheting in between.
SYLVIA PLATHThere is nothing like puking with somebody to make you into old friends.
More Sylvia Plath Quotes
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Intoxicated with madness, I’m in love with my sadness.
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Love is a shadow. How you lie and cry after it
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I talk to God but the sky is empty.
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Don’t let the wicked city get you down.
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I felt wise and cynical as all hell.
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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 felt overstuffed and dull and disappointed, the way I always do the day after Christmas.
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I find myself absolutely fulfilled when I have written a poem.
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The constant struggle in mature life, I think, is to accept the necessity of tragedy and conflict, and not to try to escape to some falsely simple solution which does not include these more somber complexities.
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Eternity bores me, I never wanted it.
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It is so much safer not to feel, not to let the world touch me.
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I want so obviously, so desperately to be loved, and to be capable of love.
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The hardest thing, I think, is to live richly in the present, without letting it be tainted and spoiled out of fear for the future or regret for a badly-managed past.
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I am myself. That is not enough.
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The abstract kills, the concrete saves.
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