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Sylvia Plath
“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 ...
“Yes, I was infatuated with you: I am still. No one has ever heightened such a keen capacity of physical sensation in me...
“We should meet in another life, we should meet in air, me and you.”
“Some things are hard to write about. After something happens to you, you go to write it down, and either you over drama...
“I?I walk alone;The midnight streetSpins itself from under my feet;My eyes shutThese dreaming houses all snuff out;Throu...
“I am terrified by this dark thingThat sleeps in me;All day I feel its soft, feathery turnings, its malignity.”
“There is so much hurt in this game of searching for a mate, of testing, trying. And you realize suddenly that you forgo...
“I wanted change and excitement and to shoot off in all directions myself, like the colored arrows from a Fourth of July...
“And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to imp...
“let me live, love, and say it well in good sentences”
“There is nothing like puking with somebody to make you into old friends.”
“I told him I believed in hell, and that certain people, like me, had to live in hell before they died, to make up for m...
“The thought that I might kill myself formed in my mind coolly as a tree or a flower.”
“Is anyone anywhere happy?”
“I wanted to crawl in between those black lines of print, the way you crawl through a fence, and go to sleep under that ...
“Writing, then, was a substitute for myself: if you don't love me, love my writing & love me for my writing. It is also ...
“I felt my lungs inflate with the onrush of scenery—air, mountains, trees, people. I thought, "This is what it is to be ...
“Remember, remember, this is now, and now, and now. Live it, feel it, cling to it. I want to become acutely aware of all...
“DyingIs 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 lean to you, numb as a fossil. Tell me I'm here.”
“I need a father. I need a mother. I need some older, wiser being to cry to. I talk to God, but the sky is empty.”
“I want to write because I have the urge to excel in one medium of translation and expression of life. I can't be satisf...
“What a man wants is a mate and what a woman wants is infinite security,’ and, ‘What a man is is an arrow into the futur...
“I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead;I lift my eyes and all is born again.”
“I talk to God but the sky is empty.”
“But when it came right down to it, the skin of my wrist looked so white and defensless that I couldn't do it. It was as...
“Living with him is like being told a perpetual story: his mind is the biggest, most imaginative I have ever met. I coul...
“August rain: the best of the summer gone, and the new fall not yet born. The odd uneven time.”
“I can't deceive myself that out of the bare stark realization that no matter how enthusiastic you are, no matter how su...
“When they asked me what I wanted to be I said I didn't know.”
