I felt overstuffed and dull and disappointed, the way I always do the day after Christmas.
SYLVIA PLATHEternity bores me, I never wanted 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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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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One thing, I try to be honest. And what is revealed is often rather hideously unflattering.
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Before I give my body, I must give my thoughts, my mind, my dreams.
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The abstract kills, the concrete saves.
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Please don’t expect me to always be good and kind and loving. There are times when I will be cold and thoughtless and hard to understand.
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I have stitched life into me like a rare organ.
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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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What I fear most, I think, is the death of the imagination.
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I feel terribly vulnerable and ‘not-myself’ when I’m not writing.
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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 felt myself melting into the shadows like the negative of a person I’d never seen before in my life.
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I am terrified by this dark thing that sleeps in me.
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There is something demoralizing about watching two people get more and more crazy about each other, especially when you are the only extra person in the room.
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I find myself absolutely fulfilled when I have written a poem.
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