I find myself absolutely fulfilled when I have written a poem.
SYLVIA PLATHI must get my soul back from you; I am killing my flesh without it.
More Sylvia Plath Quotes
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Intoxicated with madness, I’m in love with my sadness.
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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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Dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well.
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How we need another soul to cling to, another body to keep us warm. To rest and trust; to give your soul in confidence: I need this, I need someone to pour myself into.
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And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.
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Eternity bores me, I never wanted it.
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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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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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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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Kiss me, and you will see how important I am.
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The hardest thing, I think, is to live richly in the present, without letting it be tainted and spoiled out of fear for the future or regret for a badly-managed past.
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I felt myself melting into the shadows like the negative of a person I’d never seen before in my life.
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After all, we are nothing more or less than we choose to reveal.
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Cheers for spring; for life; for a growing soul.
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