I find that in a novel I can get more of life, perhaps not such intense life, but certainly more of life than in poetry.
SYLVIA PLATHPerhaps 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.
More Sylvia Plath Quotes
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I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart. I am, I am, I am.
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Aloneness and selfness are too important to betray for company.
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I am myself. That is not enough.
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I am what I feel and think and do.
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It is so much safer not to feel, not to let the world touch me.
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Don’t let the wicked city get you down.
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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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I woke to the sound of rain.
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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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My mother said the cure for thinking too much about yourself was helping somebody who was worse off than you.
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Hour by hour, day by day, life becomes possible.
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I felt overstuffed and dull and disappointed, the way I always do the day after Christmas.
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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 love life. But it is hard and I have so much, so very much to learn.
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Perfection is terrible, it cannot have children.
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