As a poet, one lives a bit on air. I always like someone who can teach me something practical.
SYLVIA PLATHI am myself. That is not enough.
More Sylvia Plath Quotes
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I felt overstuffed and dull and disappointed, the way I always do the day after Christmas.
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She stared at her reflection in the glossed shop windows as if to make sure, moment by moment, that she continued to exist.
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Love life day by day, color by color, touch by touch.
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There is nothing like puking with somebody to make you into old friends.
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Life has been some combination of fairy-tale coincidence and joie de vivre and shocks of beauty together with some hurtful self-questioning.
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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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Intoxicated with madness, I’m in love with my sadness.
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I woke to the sound of rain.
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Please don’t expect me to always be good and kind and loving. There are times when I will be cold and thoughtless and hard to understand.
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If the body is a temple, then tattoos are its stained glass windows.
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There is a certain unique and strange delight about walking down an empty street alone.
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So learn about life. Cut yourself a big slice with the silver server, a big slice of pie. Open your eyes. Let life happen.
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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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Please, I want so badly for the good things to happen.
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I have stitched life into me like a rare organ.
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