Compared with me, a tree is immortal.
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 woke to the sound of rain.
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How we need another soul to cling to, another body to keep us warm. To rest and trust; to give your soul in confidence: I need this, I need someone to pour myself into.
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I hate handing over money to people for doing what I could just as easily do myself, it makes me nervous.
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I find myself absolutely fulfilled when I have written a poem.
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If you expect nothing from somebody you are never disappointed.
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Hour by hour, day by day, life becomes possible.
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Kiss me, and you will see how important I am.
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The abstract kills, the concrete saves.
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I love my rejection slips. They show me I try.
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Every day is precious and I feel infinitely sad at this time melting away from me.
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So much working, reading, thinking, living to do! A lifetime is not long enough.
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Don’t let the wicked city get you down.
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I am not cruel, only truthful.
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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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I want to write because I have the urge to excel in one medium of translation and expression of life.
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