Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously close to wanting nothing.
SYLVIA PLATHWhat I fear most, I think, is the death of the imagination.
More Sylvia Plath Quotes
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Intoxicated with madness, I’m in love with my sadness.
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Tomorrow is another day toward death.
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I have stitched life into me like a rare organ.
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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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The sheets grow heavy as a lecher’s kiss.
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See, the darkness is leaking from the cracks. I cannot contain it. I cannot contain my life.
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I want to be important. By being different. And these girls are all the same.
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Perhaps some day I’ll crawl back home, beaten, defeated. But not as long as I can make stories out of my heartbreak, beauty out of sorrow.
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I knew you’d decide to be all right again.
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The abstract kills, the concrete saves.
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I find myself absolutely fulfilled when I have written a poem.
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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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It is so much safer not to feel, not to let the world touch me.
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I smile, now, thinking: we all like to think we are important enough to need psychiatrists.
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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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