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Sylvia Plath Inspirational Quotes (350)

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It seemed silly to wash one day when I would only have to wash again the next. It made me tired just to think of it.
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Eternity bores me, I never wanted it.
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Sometimes I feel like I'm not solid. I'm hollow. There's nothing behind my eyes. I'm a negative of a person. All I want is blackness, blackness and silence.
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You are a dream I hope I never meet you.
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I said: I must remember this, being small.
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Then I thought, No, I broke it myself. I broke it on purpose to pay myself back for being such a heel.
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If only a group of people were more important to me than the idea of a Novel, I might begin a novel.
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But writing poems and letters doesn't seem to do much good.
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I didn't really see why people should look at me. Plenty of people looked queerer than I did.
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I think I am worthwhile just because I have optical nerves and can try to put down what they perceive. What a fool!
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For me, poetry is an evasion of the real job of writing prose.
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If I have a dry spell ... I wait and live harder, eyes, ears, and heart open, and when the productive time comes, it is that much richer.
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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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Perhaps some day I'll crawl back home, beaten, defeated. But not as long as I can make stories out of my heartbreak, beauty out of sorrow.
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I have no preconceptions. Whatever I see, I swallow immediately. Just as it is, unmisted by love or dislike. I am not cruel, only truthful.
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We should meet in another life, we should meet in air, me and you.
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It is awful to want to go away and to want to go nowhere.
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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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You have to be able to make a real creative life for Yourself, before you can expect anyone Else to provide one ready-made for you.
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All the heat and fear had purged itself. I felt surprisingly at peace. The bell jar hung suspended a few feet above my head. I was open to the circulating air.
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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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Perhaps you considered yourself an oracle, Mouthpiece of the dead, or of some god or other. Thirty years now I have labored To dredge the silt from your throat. I am none the wiser.
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I collected men with interesting names. I already knew a Socrates. He was tall and ugly and intellectual and the son of some big Greek movie producer in Hollywood, but also a Catholic, which ruined it for both of us.
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No day is safe from news of you.
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