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Sylvia Plath Inspirational Quotes (350)

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I find that in a novel I can get more of life, perhaps not such intense life, but certainly more of life than in poetry.
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I am solitary as grass. What is it I miss? Shall I ever find it, whatever it is?
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When you give someone your whole heart and he doesn't want it, you cannot take it back. It's gone forever.
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I must bridge the gap between adolescent glitter and mature glow.
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To look at her, you might not guess that inside she is laughing and crying, at her own stupidities and luckiness, and at the strange enigmatic ways of the world which she will spend lifetime trying to learn and understand.
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A fierce brief fusion which dreamers call real, and realists, an illusion an insight like the flight of birds.
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I opened the door and blinked out into the bright hall. I had the impression it wasn't night and it wasn't day, but some lurid third interval that had suddenly slipped between them and would never end.
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The only reason I remembered this play was because it had a mad person in it, and everything I had ever read about mad people stuck in my mind, while everything else flew out.
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I couldn’t see the point of getting up. I had nothing to look forward to.
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Why do we electrocute men for murdering an individual and then pin a purple heart on them for mass slaughter of someone arbitrarily labeled “enemy?
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Why can’t I try on different lives, like dresses, to see which fits best and is more becoming?
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I think my poems immediately come out of the sensuous and emotional experiences I have, but I must say I cannot sympathise with these cries from the heart that are informed by nothing except a needle or a knife, or whatever it is.
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I saw the years of my life spaced along a road in the form of telephone poles threaded together by wires. I counted one, two, three... nineteen telephone poles, and then the wires dangled into space, and try as I would, I couldn't see a single pole beyond the nineteenth.
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There is nothing like puking with somebody to make you into old friends.
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The silence between us was so profound I thought part of it must be my fault.
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So I began to think maybe it was true that when you were married and had children it was like being brainwashed, and afterward you went about as numb as a slave in a totalitarian state.
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So I kiss him, and there is the great dark sea ahead.
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I am flushed and warm. I think I may be enormous, I am so stupidly happy, My wellingtons Squelching and squelching through the beautiful red.
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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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I never feel so much myself as when I'm in a hot bath.
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Is anyone anywhere happy?
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I wanted to do everything once and for all and be through with it.
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See, the darkness is leaking from the cracks. I cannot contain it. I cannot contain my life.
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We know a thing by its opposite corollary hot by having experienced cold good by having decided what is bad love by hate.
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