I have a violence in me that is hot as death-blood.
SYLVIA PLATHI felt my lungs inflate with the onrush of scenery – air, mountains, trees, people. I thought, This is what it is to be happy.
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Compared with me, a tree is immortal.
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Every day is precious and I feel infinitely sad at this time melting away from 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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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 find myself absolutely fulfilled when I have written a poem.
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I have the choice of being constantly active and happy or introspectively passive and sad. Or I can go mad by ricocheting in between.
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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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So much working, reading, thinking, living to do! A lifetime is not long enough.
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What I fear most, I think, is the death of the imagination.
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I feel terribly vulnerable and ‘not-myself’ when I’m not writing.
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I woke to the sound of rain.
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If you expect nothing from somebody you are never disappointed.
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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 took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart. I am, I am, I am.
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Kiss me, and you will see how important I am.
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