Love is the bone and sinew of my curse.
SYLVIA PLATHLife 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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We should meet in another life, we should meet in air, me and you.
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Only I wasn’t steering anything, not even myself.
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Hour by hour, day by day, life becomes possible.
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I don’t care about anyone, and the feeling is quite obviously mutual.
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There is something demoralizing about watching two people get more and more crazy about each other, especially when you are the only extra person in the room.
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I am not cruel, only truthful.
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I felt wise and cynical as all hell.
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I want so obviously, so desperately to be loved, and to be capable of love.
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I find myself absolutely fulfilled when I have written a poem.
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It is so much safer not to feel, not to let the world touch me.
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It is awful to want to go away and to want to go nowhere.
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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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I am too pure for you or anyone.
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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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I want to be able to sleep in an open field, to travel west, to walk freely at night.
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