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Sylvia Plath Quotes
Best Quotes by Sylvia Plath (Top 10)
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I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want. And why do I want? I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in life. And I am horribly limited.
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If you expect nothing from anybody, you're never disappointed.
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And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.
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Kiss me and you will see how important I am.
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I took a deep breath and listened to the old bray of my heart. I am. I am. I am.
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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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Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously close to wanting nothing.
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And when at last you find someone to whom you feel you can pour out your soul, you stop in shock at the words you utter they are so rusty, so ugly, so meaningless and feeble from being kept in the small cramped dark inside you so long.
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Remember, remember, this is now, and now, and now. Live it, feel it, cling to it. I want to become acutely aware of all I've taken for granted.
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If neurotic is wanting two mutually exclusive things at one and the same time, then I'm neurotic as hell. I'll be flying back and forth between one mutually exclusive thing and another for the rest of my days.
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More Sylvia Plath Quotes
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Yes, I was infatuated with you: I am still. No one has ever heightened such a keen capacity of physical sensation in me. I cut you out because I couldn't stand being a passing fancy. Before I give my body, I must give my thoughts, my mind, my dreams. And you weren't having any of those.
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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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Is there no way out of the mind?
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I desire the things that will destroy me in the end.
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I talk to God but the sky is empty.
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Out of the ash I rise with my red hair and I eat men like air.
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Dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well. I do it so it feels like hell. I do it so it feels real. I guess you could say I've a call.
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To the person in the bell jar, blank and stopped as a dead baby, the world itself is a bad dream.
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I have never found anybody who could stand to accept the daily demonstrative love I feel in me, and give back as good as I give.
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What did my arms do before they held you?
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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. To learn and think: to think and live; to live and learn: this always, with new insight, new understanding, and new love.
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There must be quite a few things that a hot bath won't cure, but I don't know many of them.
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Please don't expect me to always be good and kind and loving. There are times when I will be cold and thoughtless and hard to understand.
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I lean to you, numb as a fossil. Tell me I'm here.
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What horrifies me most is the idea of being useless: well-educated, brilliantly promising, and fading out into an indifferent middle age.
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How frail the human heart must be - a mirrored pool of thought.
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Oh, something is there, waiting for me. Perhaps someday the revelation will burst in upon me and I will see the other side of this monumental grotesque joke. And then I'll laugh. And then I'll know what life is.
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Nothing stinks like a pile of unpublished writing.
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I felt like a racehorse in a world without racetracks or a champion college footballer suddenly confronted by Wall Street and a business suit, his days of glory shrunk to a little gold cup on his mantel with a date engraved on it like the date on a tombstone.
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I wanted change and excitement and to shoot off in all directions myself, like the colored arrows from a Fourth of July rocket.
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The blood jet is poetry and there is no stopping it.
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The man creates a pseudonym and hides behind it like a worm
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What does one woman see in another than a man cannot see? Tenderness
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Doing all the little tricky things it takes to grow up, step by step, into an anxious and unsettling world.
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For me, poetry is an evasion of the real job of writing prose.
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