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.
SYLVIA PLATHThe abstract kills, the concrete saves.
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We must be moving, working, making dreams to run toward; the poverty of life without dreams is too horrible to imagine.
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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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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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Hour by hour, day by day, life becomes possible.
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I woke to the sound of rain.
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I find myself absolutely fulfilled when I have written a poem.
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There is nothing like puking with somebody to make you into old friends.
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I don’t care about anyone, and the feeling is quite obviously mutual.
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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 knew you’d decide to be all right again.
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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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I am myself. That is not enough.
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Kiss me, and you will see how important I am.
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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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I am not cruel, only truthful.
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