I write only because There is a voice within me That will not be still.
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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Love life day by day, color by color, touch by touch.
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I feel terribly vulnerable and ‘not-myself’ when I’m not writing.
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I am dead to them, even though I once flowered.
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Perfection is terrible, it cannot have children.
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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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She stared at her reflection in the glossed shop windows as if to make sure, moment by moment, that she continued to exist.
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The trouble was, I had been inadequate all along, I simply hadn’t thought about it.
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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 am what I feel and think and do.
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I woke to the sound of rain.
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I have the choice of being constantly active and happy or introspectively passive and sad. Or I can go mad by ricocheting in between.
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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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Love is a shadow. How you lie and cry after it
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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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Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously close to wanting nothing.
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