I felt overstuffed and dull and disappointed, the way I always do the day after Christmas.
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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So much working, reading, thinking, living to do! A lifetime is not long enough.
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The abstract kills, the concrete saves.
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I find myself absolutely fulfilled when I have written a poem.
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Aloneness and selfness are too important to betray for company.
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It is awful to want to go away and to want to go nowhere.
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I want to be important. By being different. And these girls are all the same.
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A man’s world is different from a woman’s world and a man’s emotions are different from a woman’s emotions and only marriage can bring the two different sets of emotions together properly.
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People or stars Regard me sadly, I disappoint them.
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It’s a hell of a responsibility to be yourself. It’s much easier to be somebody else or nobody at all.
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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 have stitched life into me like a rare organ.
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I am dead to them, even though I once flowered.
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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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It is so much safer not to feel, not to let the world touch me.
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I write only because There is a voice within me That will not be still.
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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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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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As a poet, one lives a bit on air. I always like someone who can teach me something practical.
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Let me live, love and say it well in good sentences.
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If you expect nothing from somebody you are never disappointed.
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I talk to God but the sky is empty.
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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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I desire the things that will destroy me in the end.
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I must get my soul back from you; I am killing my flesh without it.
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The abstract kills, the concrete saves.
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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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