I find myself absolutely fulfilled when I have written a poem.
SYLVIA PLATHI have the choice of being constantly active and happy or introspectively passive and sad. Or I can go mad by ricocheting in between.
More Sylvia Plath Quotes
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People or stars Regard me sadly, I disappoint them.
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The trouble was, I had been inadequate all along, I simply hadn’t thought about it.
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There is something demoralizing about watching two people get more and more crazy about each other, especially when you are the only extra person in the room.
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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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I want so obviously, so desperately to be loved, and to be capable of love.
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The hardest thing, I think, is to live richly in the present, without letting it be tainted and spoiled out of fear for the future or regret for a badly-managed past.
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What horrifies me most is the idea of being useless: well-educated, brilliantly promising, and fading out into an indifferent middle age.
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It is so much safer not to feel, not to let the world touch me.
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I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in life.
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Only I wasn’t steering anything, not even myself.
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I have a violence in me that is hot as death-blood.
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I like people too much or not at all. I’ve got to go down deep, to fall into people, to really know them.
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We should meet in another life, we should meet in air, me and you.
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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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Go out and do something. It isn’t your room that’s a prison, it’s yourself.
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