The abstract kills, the concrete saves.
SYLVIA PLATHI am what I feel and think and do.
More Sylvia Plath Quotes
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One thing, I try to be honest. And what is revealed is often rather hideously unflattering.
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Perfection is terrible, it cannot have children.
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Eternity bores me, I never wanted it.
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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 have the choice of being constantly active and happy or introspectively passive and sad. Or I can go mad by ricocheting in between.
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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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I must get my soul back from you; I am killing my flesh without it.
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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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There is a certain unique and strange delight about walking down an empty street alone.
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I am myself. That is not enough.
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I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart. I am, I am, I am.
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As a poet, one lives a bit on air. I always like someone who can teach me something practical.
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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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Don’t let the wicked city get you down.
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Everything in life is writable.
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