I am terrified by this dark thing that sleeps in me.
SYLVIA PLATHAloneness and selfness are too important to betray for company.
More Sylvia Plath Quotes
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I find myself absolutely fulfilled when I have written a poem.
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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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Kiss me, and you will see how important I am.
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If you expect nothing from somebody you are never disappointed.
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I must get my soul back from you; I am killing my flesh without it.
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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 smile, now, thinking: we all like to think we are important enough to need psychiatrists.
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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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My mother said the cure for thinking too much about yourself was helping somebody who was worse off than you.
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Every day is precious and I feel infinitely sad at this time melting away from me.
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Perfection is terrible, it cannot have children.
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I talk to God but the sky is empty.
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I write only because There is a voice within me That will not be still.
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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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If you expect nothing from somebody you are never disappointed.
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