I have stitched life into me like a rare organ.
SYLVIA PLATHI woke to the sound of rain.
More Sylvia Plath Quotes
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Dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well.
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I smile, now, thinking: we all like to think we are important enough to need psychiatrists.
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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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Please, I want so badly for the good things to happen.
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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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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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The abstract kills, the concrete saves.
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The silence depressed me. It wasn’t the silence of silence. It was my own silence.
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I feel terribly vulnerable and ‘not-myself’ when I’m not writing.
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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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My mother said the cure for thinking too much about yourself was helping somebody who was worse off than you.
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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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So much working, reading, thinking, living to do! A lifetime is not long enough.
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After all, we are nothing more or less than we choose to reveal.
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I find myself absolutely fulfilled when I have written a poem.
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