I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in my life. And I am horribly limited.

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Feel Shade Feel Experience

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Adore Every Fascist Woman

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I took a deep breath and listened to the old bray of my heart. I am. I am. I am.

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Am Breath Deep Deep Breath

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There must be quite a few things that a hot bath won't cure, but I don't know many of them.

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Bath Cure Few Few Things

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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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About Creativity Nemy Everything

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Empty God Sky Talk

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Apparently, the most difficult feat for a Cambridge male is to accept a woman not merely as feeling, not merely as thinking, but as managing a complex, vital interweaving of both.

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Accept Apparently Both Cambridge

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Dying is 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 guess you could say I've a call.

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Art Call Could Dying

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Mind Out Way

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If neurotic is wanting two mutually exclusive things at one and the same time, then I'm neurotic as hell. I'll be flying back and forth between one mutually exclusive thing and another for the rest of my days.

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Another Back Between Days

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I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead; I lift my eyes and all is born again.

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Again All The World Born Born-Again

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The blood jet is poetry and there is no stopping it.

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Blood Jet Poetry Stopping

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How frail the human heart must be - a mirrored pool of thought.

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Frail Heart How Human

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Consumes Itself Widow Word

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Kiss me and you will see how important I am.

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Am How I Am Important

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Nothing stinks like a pile of unpublished writing.

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Like Nothing Pile Stinks

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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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Because Close Dangerously Everything Find

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But life is long. And it is the long run that balances the short flare of interest and passion.

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Balances Interest Life Long

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Am Anyone I Am Pure

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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; you've got to burn away all the peripherals.

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Away Burn Discipline Far

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I think my poems immediately come out of the sensuous and emotional experiences I have.

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Come Emotional Emotional Experiences Experiences

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One should be able to control and manipulate experiences with an informed and intelligent mind.

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Able Control Experiences Informed

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I've begun to think like a Jew, to feel like a Jew.

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Begun Feel Jew Like

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Another Cling How Need

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Wear your heart on your skin in this life.

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Heart Life Skin Wear

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Perfection is terrible; it cannot have children.

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Cannot Children Perfection Terrible

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If you expect nothing from anybody, you're never disappointed.

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Anybody Disappointed Expect Never

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I have a visual imagination.

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Imagination Visual

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When you are insane, you are busy being insane - all the time.

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Being Busy Insane Time You

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Back Want

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Poetry at its best can do you a lot of harm.

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Best Harm Lot Poetry

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What a man is is an arrow into the future, and what a woman is is the place the arrow shoots off from.

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Arrow Future Man Off

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Am I Am Introspection Victim

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If I have not the power to put myself in the place of other people, but must be continually burrowing inward, I shall never be the magnanimous creative person I wish to be. Yet I am hypnotized by the workings of the individual, alone, and am continually using myself as a specimen.

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Alone Am Continually Creative

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I have the choice of being constantly active and happy or introspectively passive and sad.

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Active Being Choice Constantly

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It is as if my life were magically run by two electric currents: joyous positive and despairing negative - whichever is running at the moment dominates my life, floods it.

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Currents Despairing Electric Floods

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Babies Beef Books Want

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When I was learning to creep, my mother set me down on the beach to see what I thought of it. I crawled straight for the coming wave and was just through the wall of green when she caught my heels.

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Beach Caught Coming Creep

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Mother believed that I should have an enormous amount of sleep, and so I was never really tired when I went to bed. This was the best time of day, when I could lie in the vague twilight, drifting off to sleep, making up dreams inside my head the way they should go.

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Amount Bed Believed Best

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That is how it stiffens, my vision of that seaside childhood. My father died; we moved inland. Whereon those nine first years of my life sealed themselves off like a ship in a bottle - beautiful, inaccessible, obsolete: a fine, white, flying myth.

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Beautiful Bottle Childhood Died

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Today is the first of August. It is hot, steamy and wet. It is raining. I am tempted to write a poem. But I remember what it said on one rejection slip: 'After a heavy rainfall, poems titled 'Rain' pour in from across the nation.'

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Across After Am August

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I love people. Everybody. I love them, I think, as a stamp collector loves his collection. Every story, every incident, every bit of conversation is raw material for me.

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Bit Collection Collector Conversation

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A little thing, like children putting flowers in my hair, can fill up the widening cracks in my self-assurance like soothing lanolin.

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Children Cracks Fill Flowers

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There is so much hurt in this game of searching for a mate, of testing, trying. And you realize suddenly that you forgot it was a game, and turn away in tears.

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Away Forgot Game Hurt

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I pass by people, grazing them on the edges, and it bothers me. I've got to admire someone to really like them deeply - to value them as friends.

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Admire Bothers Deeply Edges

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I want to live and feel all the shades, tones, and variations of mental and physical experience possible in my life. And I am horribly limited.

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Am Experience Feel Horribly

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I don't believe that the meek will inherit the earth; The meek get ignored and trampled.

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Believe Earth Get Ignored Inherit

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Freedom is not of use to those who do not know how to employ it.

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Employ Freedom How Know

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Indecision and reveries are the anesthetics of constructive action.

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Action Constructive Ndecision Reverie

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Since my woman's world is perceived greatly through the emotions and the senses, I treat it that way in my writing - and am often overweighted with heavy descriptive passages and a kaleidoscope of similes.

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Am Descriptive Emotions Greatly

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"69 Sylvia Plath Quotes & Sayings

I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in my life. And I am horribly limited.

Sylvia Plath

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I took a deep breath and listened to the old bray of my heart. I am. I am. I am.

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There must be quite a few things that a hot bath won't cure, but I don't know many of them.

Sylvia Plath

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.

Sylvia Plath

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Apparently, the most difficult feat for a Cambridge male is to accept a woman not merely as feeling, not merely as thinking, but as managing a complex, vital interweaving of both.

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Dying is 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 guess you could say I've a call.

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If neurotic is wanting two mutually exclusive things at one and the same time, then I'm neurotic as hell. I'll be flying back and forth between one mutually exclusive thing and another for the rest of my days.

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Nothing stinks like a pile of unpublished writing.

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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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But life is long. And it is the long run that balances the short flare of interest and passion.

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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; you've got to burn away all the peripherals.

Sylvia Plath

I think my poems immediately come out of the sensuous and emotional experiences I have.

Sylvia Plath

One should be able to control and manipulate experiences with an informed and intelligent mind.

Sylvia Plath

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Wear your heart on your skin in this life.

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Perfection is terrible; it cannot have children.

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I have a visual imagination.

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When you are insane, you are busy being insane - all the time.

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Poetry at its best can do you a lot of harm.

Sylvia Plath

What a man is is an arrow into the future, and what a woman is is the place the arrow shoots off from.

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If I have not the power to put myself in the place of other people, but must be continually burrowing inward, I shall never be the magnanimous creative person I wish to be. Yet I am hypnotized by the workings of the individual, alone, and am continually using myself as a specimen.

Sylvia Plath

I have the choice of being constantly active and happy or introspectively passive and sad.

Sylvia Plath

It is as if my life were magically run by two electric currents: joyous positive and despairing negative - whichever is running at the moment dominates my life, floods it.

Sylvia Plath

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When I was learning to creep, my mother set me down on the beach to see what I thought of it. I crawled straight for the coming wave and was just through the wall of green when she caught my heels.

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Mother believed that I should have an enormous amount of sleep, and so I was never really tired when I went to bed. This was the best time of day, when I could lie in the vague twilight, drifting off to sleep, making up dreams inside my head the way they should go.

Sylvia Plath

That is how it stiffens, my vision of that seaside childhood. My father died; we moved inland. Whereon those nine first years of my life sealed themselves off like a ship in a bottle - beautiful, inaccessible, obsolete: a fine, white, flying myth.

Sylvia Plath

Today is the first of August. It is hot, steamy and wet. It is raining. I am tempted to write a poem. But I remember what it said on one rejection slip: 'After a heavy rainfall, poems titled 'Rain' pour in from across the nation.'

Sylvia Plath

I love people. Everybody. I love them, I think, as a stamp collector loves his collection. Every story, every incident, every bit of conversation is raw material for me.

Sylvia Plath

A little thing, like children putting flowers in my hair, can fill up the widening cracks in my self-assurance like soothing lanolin.

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I pass by people, grazing them on the edges, and it bothers me. I've got to admire someone to really like them deeply - to value them as friends.

Sylvia Plath

I want to live and feel all the shades, tones, and variations of mental and physical experience possible in my life. And I am horribly limited.