I felt overstuffed and dull and disappointed, the way I always do the day after Christmas.
SYLVIA PLATHI like people too much or not at all. I’ve got to go down deep, to fall into people, to really know them.
More Sylvia Plath Quotes
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I feel terribly vulnerable and ‘not-myself’ when I’m not writing.
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Love is a shadow. How you lie and cry after it
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I love life. But it is hard and I have so much, so very much to learn.
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Cheers for spring; for life; for a growing soul.
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I am what I feel and think and do.
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I find myself absolutely fulfilled when I have written a poem.
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I am too pure for you or anyone.
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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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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 write because I have the urge to excel in one medium of translation and expression of life.
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So learn about life. Cut yourself a big slice with the silver server, a big slice of pie. Open your eyes. Let life happen.
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I find that in a novel I can get more of life, perhaps not such intense life, but certainly more of life than in poetry.
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I felt wise and cynical as all hell.
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It is so much safer not to feel, not to let the world touch me.
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It’s a hell of a responsibility to be yourself. It’s much easier to be somebody else or nobody at all.
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