As a poet, one lives a bit on air. I always like someone who can teach me something practical.
SYLVIA PLATHSo much working, reading, thinking, living to do! A lifetime is not long enough.
More Sylvia Plath Quotes
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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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I woke to the sound of rain.
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Everything in life is writable.
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Love is the bone and sinew of my curse.
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I have stitched life into me like a rare organ.
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I am terrified by this dark thing that sleeps in me.
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I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead; I lift my eyes and all is born again.
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What horrifies me most is the idea of being useless: well-educated, brilliantly promising, and fading out into an indifferent middle age.
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I talk to God but the sky is empty.
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Kiss me, and you will see how important I am.
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The abstract kills, the concrete saves.
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The truth comes to me. The truth loves me.
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Perfection is terrible, it cannot have children.
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When you give someone your whole heart and he doesn’t want it, you cannot take it back. It’s gone forever.
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One thing, I try to be honest. And what is revealed is often rather hideously unflattering.
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