I find myself absolutely fulfilled when I have written a poem.
SYLVIA PLATHWhat 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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Kiss me, and you will see how important I am.
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I felt wise and cynical as all hell.
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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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Eternity bores me, I never wanted it.
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I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in life.
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I want so obviously, so desperately to be loved, and to be capable of love.
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I want to be important. By being different. And these girls are all the same.
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I talk to God but the sky is empty.
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Please, I want so badly for the good things to happen.
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I want to be able to sleep in an open field, to travel west, to walk freely at night.
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I feel terribly vulnerable and ‘not-myself’ when I’m not writing.
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I’m sarcastic, skeptical, and sometimes callous because I’m still afraid, deep down, of letting myself be hurt.
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I like people too much or not at all. I’ve got to go down deep, to fall into people, to really know them.
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I am dead to them, even though I once flowered.
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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.
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