As a poet, one lives a bit on air. I always like someone who can teach me something practical.
SYLVIA PLATHI desire the things that will destroy me in the end.
More Sylvia Plath Quotes
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The abstract kills, the concrete saves.
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Opinions are like orgasms, mine matters most and I really don’t care if you have one.
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One thing, I try to be honest. And what is revealed is often rather hideously unflattering.
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So learn about life. Cut yourself a big slice with the silver server, a big slice of pie. Open your eyes. Let life happen.
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I’m sarcastic, skeptical, and sometimes callous because I’m still afraid, deep down, of letting myself be hurt.
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The trouble was, I had been inadequate all along, I simply hadn’t thought about it.
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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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I am not cruel, only truthful.
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I find myself absolutely fulfilled when I have written a poem.
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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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I want so obviously, so desperately to be loved, and to be capable of love.
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I felt myself melting into the shadows like the negative of a person I’d never seen before in my life.
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I love my rejection slips. They show me I try.
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I felt wise and cynical as all hell.
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If the body is a temple, then tattoos are its stained glass windows.
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