The abstract kills, the concrete saves.
SYLVIA PLATHCheers for spring; for life; for a growing soul.
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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I desire the things that will destroy me in the end.
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Eternity bores me, I never wanted it.
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People or stars Regard me sadly, I disappoint them.
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Aloneness and selfness are too important to betray for company.
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I feel terribly vulnerable and ‘not-myself’ when I’m not writing.
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I talk to God but the sky is empty.
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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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Only I wasn’t steering anything, not even myself.
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My mother said the cure for thinking too much about yourself was helping somebody who was worse off than you.
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I have a violence in me that is hot as death-blood.
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I am terrified by this dark thing that sleeps in me.
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I didn’t want my picture taken because I was going to cry. I didn’t know why I was going to cry, but I knew that if anybody spoke to me or looked at me too closely the tears would fly out of my eyes and the sobs would fly out of my throat and I’d cry for a week.
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I want to be able to sleep in an open field, to travel west, to walk freely at night.
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Kiss me, and you will see how important I am.
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