Hour by hour, day by day, life becomes possible.
SYLVIA PLATHEternity bores me, I never wanted it.
More Sylvia Plath Quotes
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And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.
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I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in life.
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We must be moving, working, making dreams to run toward; the poverty of life without dreams is too horrible to imagine.
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I feel terribly vulnerable and ‘not-myself’ when I’m not writing.
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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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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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Compared with me, a tree is immortal.
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Life has been some combination of fairy-tale coincidence and joie de vivre and shocks of beauty together with some hurtful self-questioning.
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She stared at her reflection in the glossed shop windows as if to make sure, moment by moment, that she continued to exist.
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Aloneness and selfness are too important to betray for company.
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The sheets grow heavy as a lecher’s kiss.
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Perfection is terrible, it cannot have children.
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The abstract kills, the concrete saves.
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I find myself absolutely fulfilled when I have written a poem.
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What I fear most, I think, is the death of the imagination.
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