Don’t let the wicked city get you down.
SYLVIA PLATHThe 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.
More Sylvia Plath Quotes
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If you expect nothing from somebody you are never disappointed.
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Go out and do something. It isn’t your room that’s a prison, it’s yourself.
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People or stars Regard me sadly, I disappoint them.
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I must get my soul back from you; I am killing my flesh without it.
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I love my rejection slips. They show me I try.
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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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I dream too much, work too little.
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It is so much safer not to feel, not to let the world touch me.
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Only I wasn’t steering anything, not even myself.
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I want to be able to sleep in an open field, to travel west, to walk freely at night.
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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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Every day is precious and I feel infinitely sad at this time melting away from me.
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I smile, now, thinking: we all like to think we are important enough to need psychiatrists.
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I have a violence in me that is hot as death-blood.
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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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