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.
SYLVIA PLATHEternity bores me, I never wanted it.
More Sylvia Plath Quotes
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I have stitched life into me like a rare organ.
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Go out and do something. It isn’t your room that’s a prison, it’s yourself.
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I must get my soul back from you; I am killing my flesh without it.
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Love life day by day, color by color, touch by touch.
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If the body is a temple, then tattoos are its stained glass windows.
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I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart. I am, I am, I am.
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I am terrified by this dark thing that sleeps in me.
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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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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 hate handing over money to people for doing what I could just as easily do myself, it makes me nervous.
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The trouble was, I had been inadequate all along, I simply hadn’t thought about it.
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Every day is precious and I feel infinitely sad at this time melting away from me.
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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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After all, we are nothing more or less than we choose to reveal.
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