What horrifies me most is the idea of being useless: well-educated, brilliantly promising, and fading out into an indifferent middle age.
SYLVIA PLATHI 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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I want to write because I have the urge to excel in one medium of translation and expression of life.
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I find myself absolutely fulfilled when I have written a poem.
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After all, we are nothing more or less than we choose to reveal.
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Dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well.
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Love is the bone and sinew of my curse.
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The sheets grow heavy as a lecher’s kiss.
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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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Aloneness and selfness are too important to betray for company.
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Intoxicated with madness, I’m in love with my sadness.
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I talk to God but the sky is empty.
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I am what I feel and think and do.
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It is awful to want to go away and to want to go nowhere.
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I am terrified by this dark thing that sleeps in me.
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My mother said the cure for thinking too much about yourself was helping somebody who was worse off than you.
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