See, the darkness is leaking from the cracks. I cannot contain it. I cannot contain my life.
SYLVIA PLATHThe hardest thing, I think, is to live richly in the present, without letting it be tainted and spoiled out of fear for the future or regret for a badly-managed past.
More Sylvia Plath Quotes
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I felt overstuffed and dull and disappointed, the way I always do the day after Christmas.
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I woke to the sound of rain.
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If the body is a temple, then tattoos are its stained glass windows.
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Intoxicated with madness, I’m in love with my sadness.
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I am too pure for you or anyone.
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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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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 am terrified by this dark thing that sleeps in me.
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I feel terribly vulnerable and ‘not-myself’ when I’m not writing.
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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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I am what I feel and think and do.
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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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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 want so obviously, so desperately to be loved, and to be capable of love.
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There is a certain unique and strange delight about walking down an empty street alone.
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