As a poet, one lives a bit on air. I always like someone who can teach me something practical.
SYLVIA PLATHI want to write because I have the urge to excel in one medium of translation and expression of life.
More Sylvia Plath Quotes
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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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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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I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in life.
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There is a certain unique and strange delight about walking down an empty street alone.
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Before I give my body, I must give my thoughts, my mind, my dreams.
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When you give someone your whole heart and he doesn’t want it, you cannot take it back. It’s gone forever.
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Perhaps some day I’ll crawl back home, beaten, defeated. But not as long as I can make stories out of my heartbreak, beauty out of sorrow.
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Don’t let the wicked city get you down.
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I want so obviously, so desperately to be loved, and to be capable of love.
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Cheers for spring; for life; for a growing soul.
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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 love my rejection slips. They show me I try.
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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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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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Hour by hour, day by day, life becomes possible.
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