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 PLATHI have stitched life into me like a rare organ.
More Sylvia Plath Quotes
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I am too pure for you or anyone.
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Go out and do something. It isn’t your room that’s a prison, it’s yourself.
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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 want so obviously, so desperately to be loved, and to be capable of love.
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The abstract kills, the concrete saves.
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Compared with me, a tree is immortal.
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Sometimes I feel like I’m not solid. I’m hollow. There’s nothing behind my eyes. I’m a negative of a person. All I want is blackness, blackness and silence.
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I woke to the sound of rain.
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It is so much safer not to feel, not to let the world touch me.
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I dream too much, work too little.
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Before I give my body, I must give my thoughts, my mind, my dreams.
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Only I wasn’t steering anything, not even myself.
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We must be moving, working, making dreams to run toward; the poverty of life without dreams is too horrible to imagine.
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Eternity bores me, I never wanted it.
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I am what I feel and think and do.
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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.
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Don’t let the wicked city get you down.
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Please, I want so badly for the good things to happen.
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I talk to God but the sky is empty.
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Hour by hour, day by day, life becomes possible.
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I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead; I lift my eyes and all is born again.
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If you expect nothing from somebody you are never disappointed.
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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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I find myself absolutely fulfilled when I have written a poem.
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I have a violence in me that is hot as death-blood.
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I smile, now, thinking: we all like to think we are important enough to need psychiatrists.
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