As a poet, one lives a bit on air. I always like someone who can teach me something practical.
SYLVIA PLATHCompared with me, a tree is immortal.
More Sylvia Plath Quotes
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We should meet in another life, we should meet in air, me and you.
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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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Only I wasn’t steering anything, not even myself.
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If you expect nothing from somebody you are never disappointed.
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Please, I want so badly for the good things to happen.
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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 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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I find myself absolutely fulfilled when I have written a poem.
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I want so obviously, so desperately to be loved, and to be capable of love.
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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 silence depressed me. It wasn’t the silence of silence. It was my own silence.
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I am terrified by this dark thing that sleeps in me.
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I love life. But it is hard and I have so much, so very much to learn.
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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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The abstract kills, the concrete saves.
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