Go out and do something. It isn’t your room that’s a prison, it’s yourself.
SYLVIA PLATHHour by hour, day by day, life becomes possible.
More Sylvia Plath Quotes
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Compared with me, a tree is immortal.
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I am terrified by this dark thing that sleeps in me.
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I want to be important. By being different. And these girls are all the same.
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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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Eternity bores me, I never wanted it.
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What I fear most, I think, is the death of the imagination.
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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 must get my soul back from you; I am killing my flesh without it.
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I have stitched life into me like a rare organ.
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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 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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I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead; I lift my eyes and all is born again.
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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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The silence depressed me. It wasn’t the silence of silence. It was my own silence.
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Wear your heart on your skin in this life.
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