I love my rejection slips. They show me I try.
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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I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in life.
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I woke to the sound of rain.
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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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The trouble was, I had been inadequate all along, I simply hadn’t thought about it.
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If you expect nothing from somebody you are never disappointed.
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Love life day by day, color by color, touch by touch.
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I felt wise and cynical as all hell.
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It is so much safer not to feel, not to let the world touch me.
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I find myself absolutely fulfilled when I have written a poem.
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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 am too pure for you or anyone.
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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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Eternity bores me, I never wanted it.
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Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously close to wanting nothing.
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The truth comes to me. The truth loves me.
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