If the body is a temple, then tattoos are its stained glass windows.
SYLVIA PLATHCompared with me, a tree is immortal.
More Sylvia Plath Quotes
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I am terrified by this dark thing that sleeps in me.
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Love life day by day, color by color, touch by touch.
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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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Before I give my body, I must give my thoughts, my mind, my dreams.
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I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead; I lift my eyes and all is born again.
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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 find myself absolutely fulfilled when I have written a poem.
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I don’t care about anyone, and the feeling is quite obviously mutual.
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Dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well.
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I felt myself melting into the shadows like the negative of a person I’d never seen before in my life.
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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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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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I am not cruel, only truthful.
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See, the darkness is leaking from the cracks. I cannot contain it. I cannot contain my life.
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I want so obviously, so desperately to be loved, and to be capable of love.
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