What I fear most, I think, is the death of the imagination.
SYLVIA PLATHIf you expect nothing from somebody you are never disappointed.
More Sylvia Plath Quotes
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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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Go out and do something. It isn’t your room that’s a prison, it’s yourself.
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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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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 find myself absolutely fulfilled when I have written a poem.
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What horrifies me most is the idea of being useless: well-educated, brilliantly promising, and fading out into an indifferent middle age.
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As a poet, one lives a bit on air. I always like someone who can teach me something practical.
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There is something demoralizing about watching two people get more and more crazy about each other, especially when you are the only extra person in the room.
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The abstract kills, the concrete saves.
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We should meet in another life, we should meet in air, me and you.
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If you expect nothing from somebody you are never disappointed.
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Aloneness and selfness are too important to betray for company.
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The sheets grow heavy as a lecher’s kiss.
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I felt wise and cynical as all hell.
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I felt overstuffed and dull and disappointed, the way I always do the day after Christmas.
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