I didn’t want my picture taken because I was going to cry. I didn’t know why I was going to cry, but I knew that if anybody spoke to me or looked at me too closely the tears would fly out of my eyes and the sobs would fly out of my throat and I’d cry for a week.
SYLVIA PLATHI knew you’d decide to be all right again.
More Sylvia Plath Quotes
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The trouble was, I had been inadequate all along, I simply hadn’t thought about it.
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Aloneness and selfness are too important to betray for company.
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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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Every day is precious and I feel infinitely sad at this time melting away from me.
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If you expect nothing from somebody you are never disappointed.
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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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I want to be able to sleep in an open field, to travel west, to walk freely at night.
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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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I knew you’d decide to be all right again.
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I find myself absolutely fulfilled when I have written a poem.
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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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Everything in life is writable.
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Before I give my body, I must give my thoughts, my mind, my dreams.
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I am too pure for you or anyone.
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I am what I feel and think and do.
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