Love is the bone and sinew of my curse.
SYLVIA PLATHHour by hour, day by day, life becomes possible.
More Sylvia Plath Quotes
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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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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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If the body is a temple, then tattoos are its stained glass windows.
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The abstract kills, the concrete saves.
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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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The sheets grow heavy as a lecher’s kiss.
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If you expect nothing from somebody you are never disappointed.
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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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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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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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There is something demoralizing about watching two people get more and more crazy about each other, especially when you are the only extra person in the room.
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We should meet in another life, we should meet in air, me and you.
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I woke to the sound of rain.
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I knew you’d decide to be all right again.
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My mother said the cure for thinking too much about yourself was helping somebody who was worse off than you.
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