It is so much safer not to feel, not to let the world touch me.
SYLVIA PLATHAs a poet, one lives a bit on air. I always like someone who can teach me something practical.
More Sylvia Plath Quotes
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Perhaps some day I’ll crawl back home, beaten, defeated. But not as long as I can make stories out of my heartbreak, beauty out of sorrow.
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I am too pure for you or anyone.
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Let me live, love and say it well in good sentences.
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Eternity bores me, I never wanted it.
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If you expect nothing from somebody you are never disappointed.
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Love is the bone and sinew of my curse.
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I talk to God but the sky is empty.
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Opinions are like orgasms, mine matters most and I really don’t care if you have one.
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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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There is something demoralizing about watching two people get more and more crazy about each other, especially when you are the only extra person in the room.
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Aloneness and selfness are too important to betray for company.
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There is a certain unique and strange delight about walking down an empty street alone.
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I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in life.
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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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It is awful to want to go away and to want to go nowhere.
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Everything in life is writable.
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I dream too much, work too little.
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See, the darkness is leaking from the cracks. I cannot contain it. I cannot contain my life.
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I must get my soul back from you; I am killing my flesh without it.
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Wear your heart on your skin in this life.
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I desire the things that will destroy me in the end.
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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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There is nothing like puking with somebody to make you into old friends.
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I find myself absolutely fulfilled when I have written a poem.
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The sheets grow heavy as a lecher’s kiss.
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When you give someone your whole heart and he doesn’t want it, you cannot take it back. It’s gone forever.
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