As a poet, one lives a bit on air. I always like someone who can teach me something practical.
SYLVIA PLATHWhat I fear most, I think, is the death of the imagination.
More Sylvia Plath Quotes
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What 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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Let me live, love and say it well in good sentences.
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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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Love life day by day, color by color, touch by touch.
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I want to be important. By being different. And these girls are all the same.
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If the body is a temple, then tattoos are its stained glass windows.
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I want so obviously, so desperately to be loved, and to be capable of love.
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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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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 want to be able to sleep in an open field, to travel west, to walk freely at night.
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I woke to the sound of rain.
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I have a violence in me that is hot as death-blood.
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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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Please, I want so badly for the good things to happen.
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Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously close to wanting nothing.
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