I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead; I lift my eyes and all is born again.
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 want to taste and glory in each day, and never be afraid to experience pain; and never shut myself up in a numb core of nonfeeling, or stop questioning and criticizing life and take the easy way out.
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I am not cruel, only truthful.
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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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I find myself absolutely fulfilled when I have written a poem.
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Dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well.
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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 am myself. That is not enough.
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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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Love life day by day, color by color, touch by touch.
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I must get my soul back from you; I am killing my flesh without it.
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I write only because There is a voice within me That will not be still.
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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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Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously close to wanting nothing.
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It is awful to want to go away and to want to go nowhere.
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Kiss me, and you will see how important I am.
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