I like people too much or not at all. I’ve got to go down deep, to fall into people, to really know them.
SYLVIA PLATHOnly I wasn’t steering anything, not even myself.
More Sylvia Plath Quotes
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I have a violence in me that is hot as death-blood.
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The abstract kills, the concrete saves.
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The trouble was, I had been inadequate all along, I simply hadn’t thought about it.
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Please, I want so badly for the good things to happen.
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I love my rejection slips. They show me I try.
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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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Love is the bone and sinew of my curse.
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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 didn’t want my picture taken because I was going to cry. I didn’t know why I was going to cry, but I knew that if anybody spoke to me or looked at me too closely the tears would fly out of my eyes and the sobs would fly out of my throat and I’d cry for a week.
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The abstract kills, the concrete saves.
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Compared with me, a tree is immortal.
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The truth comes to me. The truth loves me.
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I find myself absolutely fulfilled when I have written a poem.
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I felt overstuffed and dull and disappointed, the way I always do the day after Christmas.
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I want so obviously, so desperately to be loved, and to be capable of love.
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