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.
SYLVIA PLATHI find myself absolutely fulfilled when I have written a poem.
More Sylvia Plath Quotes
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I want so obviously, so desperately to be loved, and to be capable of love.
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Every day is precious and I feel infinitely sad at this time melting away from me.
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The sheets grow heavy as a lecher’s kiss.
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The constant struggle in mature life, I think, is to accept the necessity of tragedy and conflict, and not to try to escape to some falsely simple solution which does not include these more somber complexities.
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I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead; I lift my eyes and all is born again.
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I felt wise and cynical as all hell.
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So learn about life. Cut yourself a big slice with the silver server, a big slice of pie. Open your eyes. Let life happen.
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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 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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I find myself absolutely fulfilled when I have written a poem.
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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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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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The truth comes to me. The truth loves me.
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So much working, reading, thinking, living to do! A lifetime is not long enough.
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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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I am what I feel and think and do.
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Only I wasn’t steering anything, not even myself.
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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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Tomorrow is another day toward death.
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Wear your heart on your skin in this life.
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Hour by hour, day by day, life becomes possible.
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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 dream too much, work too little.
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Everything in life is writable.
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The abstract kills, the concrete saves.
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Please don’t expect me to always be good and kind and loving. There are times when I will be cold and thoughtless and hard to understand.
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