I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead; I lift my eyes and all is born again.
SYLVIA PLATHI feel terribly vulnerable and ‘not-myself’ when I’m not writing.
More Sylvia Plath Quotes
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Intoxicated with madness, I’m in love with my sadness.
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I find myself absolutely fulfilled when I have written a poem.
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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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Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously close to wanting nothing.
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The sheets grow heavy as a lecher’s kiss.
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I write only because There is a voice within me That will not be still.
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I am terrified by this dark thing that sleeps in me.
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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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The constant struggle in mature life, I think, is to accept the necessity of tragedy and conflict, and not to try to escape to some falsely simple solution which does not include these more somber complexities.
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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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See, the darkness is leaking from the cracks. I cannot contain it. I cannot contain my life.
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The abstract kills, the concrete saves.
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Love life day by day, color by color, touch by touch.
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Cheers for spring; for life; for a growing soul.
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A man’s world is different from a woman’s world and a man’s emotions are different from a woman’s emotions and only marriage can bring the two different sets of emotions together properly.
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