The abstract kills, the concrete saves.
SYLVIA PLATHI find myself absolutely fulfilled when I have written a poem.
More Sylvia Plath Quotes
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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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Let me live, love and say it well in good sentences.
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If you expect nothing from somebody you are never disappointed.
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Don’t let the wicked city get you down.
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I feel terribly vulnerable and ‘not-myself’ when I’m not writing.
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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 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.
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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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There is nothing like puking with somebody to make you into old friends.
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I am not cruel, only truthful.
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What I fear most, I think, is the death of the imagination.
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Only I wasn’t steering anything, not even myself.
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I felt myself melting into the shadows like the negative of a person I’d never seen before in my life.
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I felt my lungs inflate with the onrush of scenery – air, mountains, trees, people. I thought, This is what it is to be happy.
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The abstract kills, the concrete saves.
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I love my rejection slips. They show me I try.
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Perhaps 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.
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I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in life.
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I felt wise and cynical as all hell.
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A man’s world is different from a woman’s world and a man’s emotions are different from a woman’s emotions and only marriage can bring the two different sets of emotions together properly.
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I knew you’d decide to be all right again.
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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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Everything in life is writable.
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Intoxicated with madness, I’m in love with my sadness.
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Love life day by day, color by color, touch by touch.
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Aloneness and selfness are too important to betray for company.
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