People or stars Regard me sadly, I disappoint them.
SYLVIA PLATHCompared with me, a tree is immortal.
More Sylvia Plath Quotes
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Cheers for spring; for life; for a growing soul.
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I hate handing over money to people for doing what I could just as easily do myself, it makes me nervous.
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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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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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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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As a poet, one lives a bit on air. I always like someone who can teach me something practical.
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It is awful to want to go away and to want to go nowhere.
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I am myself. That is not enough.
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I find myself absolutely fulfilled when I have written a poem.
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The silence depressed me. It wasn’t the silence of silence. It was my own silence.
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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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Please, I want so badly for the good things to happen.
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I am what I feel and think and do.
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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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If you expect nothing from somebody you are never disappointed.
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