I want to be able to sleep in an open field, to travel west, to walk freely at night.
SYLVIA PLATHI felt overstuffed and dull and disappointed, the way I always do the day after Christmas.
More Sylvia Plath Quotes
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I have a violence in me that is hot as death-blood.
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I must get my soul back from you; I am killing my flesh without it.
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I have stitched life into me like a rare organ.
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Love life day by day, color by color, touch by touch.
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I want so obviously, so desperately to be loved, and to be capable of love.
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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 that in a novel I can get more of life, perhaps not such intense life, but certainly more of life than in poetry.
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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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We should meet in another life, we should meet in air, me and you.
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Life has been some combination of fairy-tale coincidence and joie de vivre and shocks of beauty together with some hurtful self-questioning.
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There is nothing like puking with somebody to make you into old friends.
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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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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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I woke to the sound of rain.
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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 felt overstuffed and dull and disappointed, the way I always do the day after Christmas.
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Everything in life is writable.
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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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Tomorrow is another day toward death.
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Eternity bores me, I never wanted it.
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If you expect nothing from somebody you are never disappointed.
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I am myself. That is not enough.
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I felt wise and cynical as all hell.
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Let me live, love and say it well in good sentences.
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I want to be important. By being different. And these girls are all the same.
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Hour by hour, day by day, life becomes possible.
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