I have a violence in me that is hot as death-blood.
SYLVIA PLATHThe silence depressed me. It wasn’t the silence of silence. It was my own silence.
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We should meet in another life, we should meet in air, me and you.
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Only I wasn’t steering anything, not even myself.
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Every day is precious and I feel infinitely sad at this time melting away from me.
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The hardest thing, I think, is to live richly in the present, without letting it be tainted and spoiled out of fear for the future or regret for a badly-managed past.
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Hour by hour, day by day, life becomes possible.
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I find myself absolutely fulfilled when I have written a poem.
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There is a certain unique and strange delight about walking down an empty street alone.
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I felt overstuffed and dull and disappointed, the way I always do the day after Christmas.
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Cheers for spring; for life; for a growing soul.
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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 desire the things that will destroy me in the end.
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Sometimes I feel like I’m not solid. I’m hollow. There’s nothing behind my eyes. I’m a negative of a person. All I want is blackness, blackness and silence.
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The silence depressed me. It wasn’t the silence of silence. It was my own silence.
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I didn’t want my picture taken because I was going to cry. I didn’t know why I was going to cry, but I knew that if anybody spoke to me or looked at me too closely the tears would fly out of my eyes and the sobs would fly out of my throat and I’d cry for a week.
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I am dead to them, even though I once flowered.
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