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Sylvia Plath Inspirational Quotes (350)

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If only I knew what I wanted I could try to see about getting it.
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I had always imagined myself hitching up on to my elbows on the delivery table after it was all over - dead white, of course, with no makeup and from the awful ordeal, but smiling and radiant, with my hair down to my waist, and reaching out for my first little squirmy child and saying its name, whatever it was.
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But when I took up my pen, my hand made big, jerky letters like those of a child, and the lines sloped down the page from left to right horizontally, as if they were loops of string lying on the paper, and someone had come along and blown them askew.
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In spite of everything, I still have my good old sense of humor.
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I've got to have something. I want to stop it all, the whole monumental grotesque joke, before it's too late. But writing poems and letters doesn't seem to do much good.
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Read widely of others' experiences, even if it'd be more comfortable to snuggle back in the comforting cotton-wool of blissful ignorance.
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…I hate myself for not being able to go downstairs naturally and seek comfort in numbers. I hate myself for having to sit here and be torn between I know not what within me.
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It's the living, the eating, the sleeping that everyone needs. Ideas don't matter so much after all. My three best friends are Catholic. I can't see their beliefs, but I can see the things they love to do on earth. When you come right down to it, I do believe in the freedom of the individual.
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I am learning peacefulness, lying by myself quietly, as the light lies on these white walls, this bed, these hands. I am nobody I have nothing to do with explosions.
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I have the one person I could ever love in this world. Now I must work to be a person worthy of that.
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The moon has nothing to be sad about, Staring from her hood of bone. She is used to this sort of thing. Her blacks crackle and drag.
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I've eaten a bag of Green apples. Boarded the train, there's no getting off
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Poetry, I feel, is a tyrannical discipline. You've got to go so far, so fast, in such a small space, that you've got to burn away all the peripherals.
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You are the one. Solid the spaces lean on, envious. You are the baby in the barn.
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I am sure there are things that can't be cured by a good bath but I can't think of one.
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You cannot regard your own life with objective curiosity all the time.
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If I was going to fall, I would hang on to my small comforts, at least, for as long as I possibly could.
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Only I wasn't steering anything, not even myself.
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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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Winter is for women The woman still at her knitting, At the cradle of Spanish walnut, Her body a bulb in the cold and too dumb to think.
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When they asked me what I wanted to be I said I didn't know.
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I must get my soul back from you I am killing my flesh without it.
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Even amidst fierce flames the golden lotus can be planted.
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You walked in, laughing, tears welling confused, mingling in your throat. How can you be so many women to so many people, oh you strange girl?
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