I write only because There is a voice within me That will not be still.
SYLVIA PLATHDying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well.
More Sylvia Plath Quotes
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Everything in life is writable.
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I find myself absolutely fulfilled when I have written a poem.
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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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Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously close to wanting nothing.
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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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I have never found anybody who could stand to accept the daily demonstrative love I feel in me, and give back as good as I give.
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I am too pure for you or anyone.
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I felt my lungs inflate with the onrush of scenery – air, mountains, trees, people. I thought, This is what it is to be happy.
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Let me live, love and say it well in good sentences.
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One thing, I try to be honest. And what is revealed is often rather hideously unflattering.
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I have stitched life into me like a rare organ.
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The abstract kills, the concrete saves.
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As a poet, one lives a bit on air. I always like someone who can teach me something practical.
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I like people too much or not at all. I’ve got to go down deep, to fall into people, to really know them.
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Hour by hour, day by day, life becomes possible.
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