I want to write because I have the urge to excel in one medium of translation and expression of life.
SYLVIA PLATHDying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well.
More Sylvia Plath Quotes
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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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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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The abstract kills, the concrete saves.
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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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Eternity bores me, I never wanted it.
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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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I am terrified by this dark thing that sleeps in me.
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I want to be important. By being different. And these girls are all the same.
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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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Kiss me, and you will see how important I am.
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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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My mother said the cure for thinking too much about yourself was helping somebody who was worse off than you.
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Don’t let the wicked city get you down.
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She stared at her reflection in the glossed shop windows as if to make sure, moment by moment, that she continued to exist.
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