I want to write because I have the urge to excel in one medium of translation and expression of life.
SYLVIA PLATHHour by hour, day by day, life becomes possible.
More Sylvia Plath Quotes
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What I fear most, I think, is the death of the imagination.
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I like people too much or not at all. I’ve got to go down deep, to fall into people, to really know them.
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I want to be important. By being different. And these girls are all the same.
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Life has been some combination of fairy-tale coincidence and joie de vivre and shocks of beauty together with some hurtful self-questioning.
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I want so obviously, so desperately to be loved, and to be capable of love.
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I write only because There is a voice within me That will not be still.
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I desire the things that will destroy me in the end.
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I am dead to them, even though I once flowered.
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There is nothing like puking with somebody to make you into old friends.
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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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I feel terribly vulnerable and ‘not-myself’ when I’m not writing.
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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 am myself. That is not enough.
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Hour by hour, day by day, life becomes possible.
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I find that in a novel I can get more of life, perhaps not such intense life, but certainly more of life than in poetry.
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