I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart. I am, I am, I am.
SYLVIA PLATHThe abstract kills, the concrete saves.
More Sylvia Plath Quotes
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If you expect nothing from somebody you are never disappointed.
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I love my rejection slips. They show me I try.
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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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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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We should meet in another life, we should meet in air, me and you.
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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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Love is a shadow. How you lie and cry after it
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The trouble was, I had been inadequate all along, I simply hadn’t thought about it.
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I desire the things that will destroy me in the end.
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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 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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The abstract kills, the concrete saves.
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It is so much safer not to feel, not to let the world touch me.
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I am not cruel, only truthful.
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There is nothing like puking with somebody to make you into old friends.
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Tomorrow is another day toward death.
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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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Before I give my body, I must give my thoughts, my mind, my dreams.
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I woke to the sound of rain.
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I dream too much, work too little.
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I want so obviously, so desperately to be loved, and to be capable of love.
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Intoxicated with madness, I’m in love with my sadness.
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I have never found anybody who could stand to accept the daily demonstrative love I feel in me, and give back as good as I give.
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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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The hardest thing, I think, is to live richly in the present, without letting it be tainted and spoiled out of fear for the future or regret for a badly-managed past.
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Cheers for spring; for life; for a growing soul.
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