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Sylvia Plath Inspirational Quotes (350)

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Character is fate.
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You smile. No, it is not fatal.
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What is so real as the cry of a child?
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I think the coming of spring, the stars overhead, the first snowfall and so on are gifts for a child, a young poet.
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Sometimes I feel so stupid and dull and uncreative that I am amazed when people tell me differently.
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The sky leans on me, me, the one upright among all horizontals.
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What I didn't say was that each time I picked up a German dictionary or a German book, the very sight of those dense, black, barbed-wire letters made my mind shut like a clam.
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God has to remind us this isn't heaven by a long shot, so he increases the radios and lethal flies.
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Look at that ugly dead mask here and do not forget it. It is a chalk mask with dead dry poison behind it, like the death angel. It is what I was this fall, and what I never want to be again. The pouting disconsolate mouth, the flat, bored, numb, expressionless eyes: symptoms of the foul decay within.
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Why honey, don't you want to get dressed? My mother took care never to tell me to do anything. She would only reason with me sweetly, like one intelligent, mature person with another. It's almost three in the afternoon. I'm writing a novel, I said. I haven't got time to change into this and change into that.
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The moon, too, abases her subjects, but in the daytime she is ridiculous. Your dissatisfactions, on the other hand, arrive through the mailslot with loving regularity, white and blank, expansive as carbon monoxide. No day is safe from news of you, walking about in Africa maybe, but thinking of me.
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I do not know who I am, where I am going - and I am the one who has to decide the answers to these hideous questions.
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To annihilate the world by annihilation of oneself is the deluded height of desperate egoism.
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If every soldier refused to take arms ... there would be no wars but no one has the courage to be the first to live according to Christ and Socrates, because in a world of opportunists they would be martyred.
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I had imagined a kind, ugly, intuitive man looking up and say, 'Ah!' in an encouraging way, as if he could see something I couldn't, and then I would find words to tell him how I was so scared, as if I were being stuffed farther and farther into a black, airless sack with no way out.
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Love set you going like a fat gold watch. The midwife slapped your footsoles, and your bald cry Took its place among the elements.
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I am myself. That is not enough.
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Hour by hour, day by day, life becomes possible.
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…beating time along the edge of thought.
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The silence drew off, baring the pebbles and shells and all the tatty wreckage of my life.
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So much working, reading, thinking, living to do! A lifetime is not long enough.
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The woman is perfected. Her dead Body wears the smile of accomplishment.
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The thing about writing is not to talk, but to do it no matter how bad or even mediocre it is, the process and production is the thing, not the sitting and theorizing about how one should write ideally, or how well one could write if one really wanted to or had the time.
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..I fancied you'd return the way you said, But I grow old and I forget your name. (I think I made you up inside my head.) I should have loved a thunderbird instead At least when spring comes they roar back again. I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead. (I think I made you up inside my head.)
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