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I felt overstuffed and dull and disappointed, the way I always do the day after Christmas.

Sylvia Plath

We should meet in another life, we should meet in air, me and you.
SYLVIA PLATH

Air Couple Friendship Imagination Meet Valentine
I want to be able to sleep in an open field, to travel west, to walk freely at night.
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Field Freedom Sleep Travel Want
I hate handing over money to people for doing what I could just as easily do myself, it makes me nervous.
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Hate Money Myself Nervous People
I have a violence in me that is hot as death-blood.
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Blood Death Violence
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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Acceptance Demonstrate Expectation Feeling Finding Giving Love
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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Broken Heart Cry Depression Pain Sad
I felt myself melting into the shadows like the negative of a person I’d never seen before in my life.
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Feeling Life Melt Negative Person Shadow
It is awful to want to go away and to want to go nowhere.
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Awful Deep Freedom Want
I love life. But it is hard and I have so much, so very much to learn.
SYLVIA PLATH

Hard Learning Life Love
The truth comes to me. The truth loves me.
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Come Love Truth
The trouble was, I had been inadequate all along, I simply hadn’t thought about it.
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Inadequate Trouble
She stared at her reflection in the glossed shop windows as if to make sure, moment by moment, that she continued to exist.
SYLVIA PLATH

Continue Existence Moments Reflection She Shop Window
I write only because There is a voice within me That will not be still.
SYLVIA PLATH

Poetry Voice Writing
There is a certain unique and strange delight about walking down an empty street alone.
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Alone Certain Empty Strange Street Unique Walk
I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart. I am, I am, I am.
SYLVIA PLATH

Breath Heart Listen Peace Self Love
As a poet, one lives a bit on air. I always like someone who can teach me something practical.
SYLVIA PLATH

Air Always Live Poet Practical Teaching

I felt overstuffed and dull and disappointed, the way I always do the day after Christmas.

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