I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead; I lift my eyes and all is born again.
SYLVIA PLATHThe silence depressed me. It wasn’t the silence of silence. It was my own silence.
More Sylvia Plath Quotes
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Everything in life is writable.
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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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If the body is a temple, then tattoos are its stained glass windows.
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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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Let me live, love and say it well in good sentences.
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So learn about life. Cut yourself a big slice with the silver server, a big slice of pie. Open your eyes. Let life happen.
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I love life. But it is hard and I have so much, so very much to learn.
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I don’t care about anyone, and the feeling is quite obviously mutual.
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People or stars Regard me sadly, I disappoint them.
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I felt overstuffed and dull and disappointed, the way I always do the day after Christmas.
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Love is the bone and sinew of my curse.
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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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Love life day by day, color by color, touch by touch.
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I have a violence in me that is hot as death-blood.
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I feel terribly vulnerable and ‘not-myself’ when I’m not writing.
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