I dream too much, work too little.
SYLVIA PLATHI find myself absolutely fulfilled when I have written a poem.
More Sylvia Plath Quotes
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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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I don’t care about anyone, and the feeling is quite obviously mutual.
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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 felt overstuffed and dull and disappointed, the way I always do the day after Christmas.
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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 taste and glory in each day, and never be afraid to experience pain; and never shut myself up in a numb core of nonfeeling, or stop questioning and criticizing life and take the easy way out.
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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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I’m sarcastic, skeptical, and sometimes callous because I’m still afraid, deep down, of letting myself be hurt.
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I am not cruel, only truthful.
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Don’t let the wicked city get you down.
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See, the darkness is leaking from the cracks. I cannot contain it. I cannot contain my life.
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I am too pure for you or anyone.
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I find myself absolutely fulfilled when I have written a poem.
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Love is the bone and sinew of my curse.
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Dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well.
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