The abstract kills, the concrete saves.
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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There is nothing like puking with somebody to make you into old friends.
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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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If the body is a temple, then tattoos are its stained glass windows.
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It is so much safer not to feel, not to let the world touch me.
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I talk to God but the sky is empty.
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I am dead to them, even though I once flowered.
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Wear your heart on your skin in this life.
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I have a violence in me that is hot as death-blood.
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I feel terribly vulnerable and ‘not-myself’ when I’m not writing.
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I must get my soul back from you; I am killing my flesh without it.
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I want to write because I have the urge to excel in one medium of translation and expression of life.
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We should meet in another life, we should meet in air, me and you.
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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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Compared with me, a tree is immortal.
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Before I give my body, I must give my thoughts, my mind, my dreams.
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