The abstract kills, the concrete saves.
SYLVIA PLATHHow 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.
More Sylvia Plath Quotes
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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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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 is a shadow. How you lie and cry after it
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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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It is so much safer not to feel, not to let the world touch me.
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We should meet in another life, we should meet in air, me and you.
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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 want so obviously, so desperately to be loved, and to be capable of love.
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Compared with me, a tree is immortal.
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Wear your heart on your skin in this life.
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What I fear most, I think, is the death of the imagination.
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I dream too much, work too little.
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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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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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