What horrifies me most is the idea of being useless: well-educated, brilliantly promising, and fading out into an indifferent middle age.
SYLVIA PLATHI 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.
More Sylvia Plath Quotes
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Wear your heart on your skin in this life.
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I want to taste and glory in each day, and never be afraid to experience pain; and never shut myself up in a numb core of nonfeeling, or stop questioning and criticizing life and take the easy way out.
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I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in life.
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Only I wasn’t steering anything, not even myself.
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Tomorrow is another day toward death.
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I woke to the sound of rain.
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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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I find myself absolutely fulfilled when I have written a poem.
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I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead; I lift my eyes and all is born again.
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There is nothing like puking with somebody to make you into old friends.
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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 am not cruel, only truthful.
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I find myself absolutely fulfilled when I have written a poem.
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Dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well.
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I am too pure for you or anyone.
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