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 PLATHPerhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously close to wanting nothing.
More Sylvia Plath Quotes
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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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A man’s world is different from a woman’s world and a man’s emotions are different from a woman’s emotions and only marriage can bring the two different sets of emotions together properly.
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I want so obviously, so desperately to be loved, and to be capable of love.
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Life has been some combination of fairy-tale coincidence and joie de vivre and shocks of beauty together with some hurtful self-questioning.
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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 love life. But it is hard and I have so much, so very much to learn.
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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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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 write only because There is a voice within me That will not be still.
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The abstract kills, the concrete saves.
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I have a violence in me that is hot as death-blood.
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Let me live, love and say it well in good sentences.
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I am dead to them, even though I once flowered.
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The 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.
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The constant struggle in mature life, I think, is to accept the necessity of tragedy and conflict, and not to try to escape to some falsely simple solution which does not include these more somber complexities.
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Dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well.
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Intoxicated with madness, I’m in love with my sadness.
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Cheers for spring; for life; for a growing soul.
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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 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 don’t care about anyone, and the feeling is quite obviously mutual.
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If you expect nothing from somebody you are never disappointed.
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Wear your heart on your skin in this life.
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I felt wise and cynical as all hell.
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I talk to God but the sky is empty.
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I knew you’d decide to be all right again.
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