If you dissect a bird / to diagram the tongue, / you'll cut the chord / articulating song. Sylvia Plath More Quotes by Sylvia Plath More Quotes From Sylvia Plath Please don’t expect me to always be good and kind and loving. There are times when I will be cold and thoughtless and hard to understand. Sylvia Plath chaoscoldkind Opinions are like orgasms...mine matters most and I really don't care if you have one. Sylvia Plath opinioncarematter Go out and do something. It isn’t your room that’s a prison, it’s yourself. Sylvia Plath your-roomprisonrooms Love life day by day, color by color, touch by touch. Sylvia Plath love-lifecolor 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 train myself in all the skills I want. And why do I want? I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in life. And I am horribly limited. Sylvia Plath famous-inspirationalskillsbook After all, we are nothing more or less than we choose to reveal. Sylvia Plath What horrifies me most is the idea of being useless: well-educated, brilliantly promising, and fading out into an indifferent middle age. Sylvia Plath feminismageideas If I didn’t think, I’d be much happier. Sylvia Plath happyhappinessthinking If you expect nothing from anybody, you’re never disappointed. Sylvia Plath feminismclassicexpectations Hour by hour, day by day, life becomes possible. Sylvia Plath day-lifehours It is so much safer not to feel, not to let the world touch me. Sylvia Plath touch-mefeelsworld I desire the things that will destroy me in the end. Sylvia Plath feminismclassicdesire Kiss me and you will see how important I am. Sylvia Plath feminismkissingimportant I have never found anybody who could stand to accept the daily demonstrative love I feel in me, and give back as good as I give. Sylvia Plath acceptanceinspirationallove I took a deep breath and listened to the old bray of my heart. I am. I am. I am. Sylvia Plath inspiringinspirationallife Remember, remember, this is now, and now, and now. Live it, feel it, cling to it. I want to become acutely aware of all I’ve taken for granted. Sylvia Plath takenmemorieslife Yes, I was infatuated with you: I am still. No one has ever heightened such a keen capacity of physical sensation in me. I cut you out because I couldn't stand being a passing fancy. Before I give my body, I must give my thoughts, my mind, my dreams. And you weren't having any of those. Sylvia Plath cuttingdreamlove The hardest thing, I think, is to live richly in the present, without letting it be tainted & spoiled out of fear for the future or regret for a badly-managed past. Sylvia Plath feminismregretpast When you give someone your whole heart and he doesn't want it, you cannot take it back. It's gone forever. Sylvia Plath unrequited-lovebetrayalheartbreak Oh, something is there, waiting for me. Perhaps someday the revelation will burst in upon me and I will see the other side of this monumental grotesque joke. And then I'll laugh. And then I'll know what life is. Sylvia Plath waitingsideslaughing
