I felt my lungs inflate with the onrush of scenery – air, mountains, trees, people. I thought, This is what it is to be happy.
SYLVIA PLATHI want so obviously, so desperately to be loved, and to be capable of love.
More Sylvia Plath Quotes
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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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Wear your heart on your skin in this life.
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I smile, now, thinking: we all like to think we are important enough to need psychiatrists.
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My mother said the cure for thinking too much about yourself was helping somebody who was worse off than you.
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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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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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Every day is precious and I feel infinitely sad at this time melting away from me.
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Love life day by day, color by color, touch by touch.
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I knew you’d decide to be all right again.
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When you give someone your whole heart and he doesn’t want it, you cannot take it back. It’s gone forever.
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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 write because I have the urge to excel in one medium of translation and expression of life.
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Hour by hour, day by day, life becomes possible.
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I don’t care about anyone, and the feeling is quite obviously mutual.
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