Dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well.
SYLVIA PLATHI feel terribly vulnerable and ‘not-myself’ when I’m not writing.
More Sylvia Plath Quotes
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I felt my lungs inflate with the onrush of scenery – air, mountains, trees, people. I thought, This is what it is to be happy.
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Aloneness and selfness are too important to betray for company.
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I must get my soul back from you; I am killing my flesh without it.
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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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If the body is a temple, then tattoos are its stained glass windows.
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We must be moving, working, making dreams to run toward; the poverty of life without dreams is too horrible to imagine.
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Wear your heart on your skin in this life.
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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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People or stars Regard me sadly, I disappoint them.
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I want to taste and glory in each day, and never be afraid to experience pain; and never shut myself up in a numb core of nonfeeling, or stop questioning and criticizing life and take the easy way out.
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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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I knew you’d decide to be all right again.
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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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I’m sarcastic, skeptical, and sometimes callous because I’m still afraid, deep down, of letting myself be hurt.
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I am dead to them, even though I once flowered.
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