I feel terribly vulnerable and ‘not-myself’ when I’m not writing.
SYLVIA PLATHThe truth comes to me. The truth loves me.
More Sylvia Plath Quotes
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There is a certain unique and strange delight about walking down an empty street alone.
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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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I find myself absolutely fulfilled when I have written a poem.
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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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Dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well.
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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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She stared at her reflection in the glossed shop windows as if to make sure, moment by moment, that she continued to exist.
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I have a violence in me that is hot as death-blood.
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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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Everything in life is writable.
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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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Tomorrow is another day toward death.
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The abstract kills, the concrete saves.
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And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.
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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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