The abstract kills, the concrete saves.
SYLVIA PLATHAnd 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.
More Sylvia Plath Quotes
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I have never found anybody who could stand to accept the daily demonstrative love I feel in me, and give back as good as I give.
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So much working, reading, thinking, living to do! A lifetime is not long enough.
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I must get my soul back from you; I am killing my flesh without it.
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I hate handing over money to people for doing what I could just as easily do myself, it makes me nervous.
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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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Kiss me, and you will see how important I am.
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What I fear most, I think, is the death of the imagination.
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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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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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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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Eternity bores me, I never wanted it.
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If you expect nothing from somebody you are never disappointed.
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I want to be important. By being different. And these girls are all the same.
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I felt overstuffed and dull and disappointed, the way I always do the day after Christmas.
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