The abstract kills, the concrete saves.
SYLVIA PLATHPlease, I want so badly for the good things to happen.
More Sylvia Plath Quotes
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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 find myself absolutely fulfilled when I have written a poem.
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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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Eternity bores me, I never wanted it.
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I want so obviously, so desperately to be loved, and to be capable of love.
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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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As a poet, one lives a bit on air. I always like someone who can teach me something practical.
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How we need another soul to cling to, another body to keep us warm. To rest and trust; to give your soul in confidence: I need this, I need someone to pour myself into.
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What I fear most, I think, is the death of the imagination.
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Tomorrow is another day toward death.
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I talk to God but the sky is empty.
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Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously close to wanting nothing.
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Love life day by day, color by color, touch by touch.
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It’s a hell of a responsibility to be yourself. It’s much easier to be somebody else or nobody at all.
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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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