The constant struggle in mature life, I think, is to accept the necessity of tragedy and conflict, and not to try to escape to some falsely simple solution which does not include these more somber complexities.
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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We should meet in another life, we should meet in air, me and you.
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I find myself absolutely fulfilled when I have written a poem.
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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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Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously close to wanting nothing.
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I love my rejection slips. They show me I try.
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Aloneness and selfness are too important to betray for company.
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Every day is precious and I feel infinitely sad at this time melting away from me.
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Let me live, love and say it well in good sentences.
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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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I want to write because I have the urge to excel in one medium of translation and expression of life.
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What I fear most, I think, is the death of the imagination.
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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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I am what I feel and think and do.
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I felt overstuffed and dull and disappointed, the way I always do the day after Christmas.
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The truth comes to me. The truth loves me.
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