I want to write because I have the urge to excel in one medium of translation and expression of 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 write only because There is a voice within me That will not be still.
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I love my rejection slips. They show me I try.
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Aloneness and selfness are too important to betray for company.
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There is nothing like puking with somebody to make you into old friends.
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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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The silence depressed me. It wasn’t the silence of silence. It was my own silence.
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I felt overstuffed and dull and disappointed, the way I always do the day after Christmas.
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We should meet in another life, we should meet in air, me and you.
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Love is a shadow. How you lie and cry after it
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Before I give my body, I must give my thoughts, my mind, my dreams.
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Intoxicated with madness, I’m in love with my sadness.
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I am dead to them, even though I once flowered.
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I woke to the sound of rain.
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I knew you’d decide to be all right again.
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The sheets grow heavy as a lecher’s kiss.
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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 am not cruel, only truthful.
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I want so obviously, so desperately to be loved, and to be capable of love.
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So learn about life. Cut yourself a big slice with the silver server, a big slice of pie. Open your eyes. Let life happen.
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I have a violence in me that is hot as death-blood.
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I am too pure for you or anyone.
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Sometimes I feel like I’m not solid. I’m hollow. There’s nothing behind my eyes. I’m a negative of a person. All I want is blackness, blackness and silence.
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Don’t let the wicked city get you down.
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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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Compared with me, a tree is immortal.
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Let me live, love and say it well in good sentences.
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