How we need another soul to cling to, another body to keep us warm. To rest and trust; to give your soul in confidence: I need this, I need someone to pour myself into.
SYLVIA PLATHDying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well.
More Sylvia Plath Quotes
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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 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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I find myself absolutely fulfilled when I have written a poem.
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Wear your heart on your skin in this life.
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So much working, reading, thinking, living to do! A lifetime is not long enough.
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I am dead to them, even though I once flowered.
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Tomorrow is another day toward death.
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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 am terrified by this dark thing that sleeps in me.
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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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What I fear most, I think, is the death of the imagination.
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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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Compared with me, a tree is immortal.
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I have the choice of being constantly active and happy or introspectively passive and sad. Or I can go mad by ricocheting in between.
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The abstract kills, the concrete saves.
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