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.
SYLVIA PLATHLet me live, love and say it well in good sentences.
More Sylvia Plath Quotes
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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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Kiss me, and you will see how important I am.
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Love life day by day, color by color, touch by touch.
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Love is a shadow. How you lie and cry after it
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I have the choice of being constantly active and happy or introspectively passive and sad. Or I can go mad by ricocheting in between.
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I must get my soul back from you; I am killing my flesh without it.
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I knew you’d decide to be all right again.
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The silence depressed me. It wasn’t the silence of silence. It was my own silence.
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It is so much safer not to feel, not to let the world touch me.
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Perfection is terrible, it cannot have children.
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I have stitched life into me like a rare organ.
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What I fear most, I think, is the death of the imagination.
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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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Perhaps some day I’ll crawl back home, beaten, defeated. But not as long as I can make stories out of my heartbreak, beauty out of sorrow.
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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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