One thing, I try to be honest. And what is revealed is often rather hideously unflattering.
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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I want to be able to sleep in an open field, to travel west, to walk freely at night.
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I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead; I lift my eyes and all is born again.
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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 want to be important. By being different. And these girls are all the same.
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There is a certain unique and strange delight about walking down an empty street alone.
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How we need another soul to cling to, another body to keep us warm. To rest and trust; to give your soul in confidence: I need this, I need someone to pour myself into.
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Love is the bone and sinew of my curse.
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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.
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I find myself absolutely fulfilled when I have written a poem.
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It is awful to want to go away and to want to go nowhere.
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I want so obviously, so desperately to be loved, and to be capable of love.
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I talk to God but the sky is empty.
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People or stars Regard me sadly, I disappoint them.
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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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I write only because There is a voice within me That will not be still.
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