"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

"Kiss me and you'll know how important I am."
— 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 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

"Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously close to wanting nothing."
— Sylvia Plath

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

"Is there no way out of the mind?"
— Sylvia Plath

"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

"If you expect nothing from anybody, you’re never disappointed."
— Sylvia Plath (The Bell Jar)

"I must get my soul back from you; I am killing my flesh without it."
— Sylvia Plath (The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath)

"That’s one of the reasons I never wanted to get married. The last thing I wanted was infinite security and to be the place an arrow shoots off from. I wanted change and excitement and to shoot off in all directions myself, like the colored arrows from a Fourth of July rocket."
— Sylvia Plath (The Bell Jar)

"You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough"
— Mae West

"I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world."
— Albert Einstein

"That which does not kill us makes us stronger."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

"Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much."
— Oscar Wilde

"To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all."
— Oscar Wilde

"Be yourself; everyone else is already taken."
— Oscar Wilde

"Great minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people."
— Eleanor Roosevelt

"Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth."
— Pablo Picasso

"The more I see, the less I know for sure."
— John Lennon

"Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted."
— John Lennon

"Sanity and happiness are an impossible combination."
— Mark Twain

"I've got nothing to do today but smile."
— Simon and Garfunkel

"Rules for Happiness:
something to do,
someone to love,
something to hope for."
— Immanuel Kant

"I felt my lungs inflate with the onrush of scenery—air, mountains, trees, people. I thought, "This is what it is to be happy.
"
— Sylvia Plath (The Bell Jar)

"Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up."
— Pablo Picasso

"Life's hard. It's even harder when you're stupid."
— John Wayne

"The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart"
— Helen Keller

"And, in the end
The love you take
is equal to the love you make."
— Paul McCartney

"America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves."
— Abraham Lincoln

"Hope is the thing with feathers
That perches in the soul
And sings the tune without the words
And never stops at all."
— Emily Dickinson

"i carry your heart with me (i carry it in my heart)i am never without it (anywhere
i go you go,my dear; and whatever is done by only me is your doing,my darling)
i fear no fate (for you are my fate,my sweet)i want no world (for beautiful you are my world,my true)
and it's you are whatever a moon has always meant and whatever a sun will always sing is you

here is the deepest secret nobody knows
(here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud and the sky of the sky of a tree called life; which grows
higher than the soul can hope or mind can hide)
and this is the wonder that's keeping the stars apart

i carry your heart (i carry it in my heart)"
— e.e. cummings

"To be nobody but
yourself in a world
which is doing its best day and night to make you like
everybody else means to fight the hardest battle
which any human being can fight and never stop fighting."
— e.e. cummings

"We do not believe in ourselves until someone reveals that deep inside us something is valuable, worth listening to, worthy of our trust, sacred to our touch. Once we believe in ourselves we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight or any experience that reveals the human spirit."
— e.e. cummings

"the earth laughs in flowers."
— e.e. cummings

"For whatever we lose (like a you or a me),
It's always our self we find in the sea."
— e.e. cummings

"Unless you love someone, nothing else makes sense."
— e.e. cummings

"I like my body when it is with your body. It is so quite new a thing. Muscles better and nerves more."
— e.e. cummings

"listen: there’s a hell
of a good universe next door; let’s go"
— e.e. cummings

"Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit"
— e.e. cummings

"may my heart always be open to little
birds who are the secrets of living
whatever they sing is better than to know
and if men should not hear them men are old

may my mind stroll about hungry
and fearless and thirsty and supple
and even if it's sunday may i be wrong
for whenever men are right they are not young

and may myself do nothing usefully
and love yourself so more than truly
there's never been quite such a fool who could fail
pulling all the sky over him with one smile"
— e.e. cummings (100 Selected Poems)

"somewhere i have never travelled, gladly beyond
any experience, your eyes have their silence:
in your most frail gesture are things which enclose me,
or which i cannot touch because they are too near

your slightest look easily will unclose me
though i have closed myself as fingers,
you open always petal by petal myself as Spring opens
(touching skilfully, mysteriously) her first rose

or if your wish be to close me, i and
my life will shut very beautifully, suddenly,
as when the heart of this flower imagines
the snow carefully everywhere descending;

nothing which we are to perceive in this world equals
the power of your intense fragility: whose texture
compels me with the colour of its countries,
rendering death and forever with each breathing

(i do not know what it is about you that closes
and opens; only something in me understands
the voice of your eyes is deeper than all roses)
nobody, not even the rain, has such small hands"
— e.e. cummings (Selected Poems)

"in time of daffodils(who know
the goal of living is to grow)
forgetting why,remember how

in time of lilacs who proclaim
the aim of waking is to dream,
remember so(forgetting seem)

in time of roses(who amaze
our now and here with paradise)
forgetting if,remember yes

in time of all sweet things beyond
whatever mind may comprehend,
remember seek(forgetting find)

and in a mystery to be
(when time from time shall set us free)
forgetting me,remember me"
— e.e. cummings

"The cure for boredom is curiosity.
There is no cure for curiosity."
— Dorothy Parker

"When I'm good, I'm very good, but when I'm bad, I'm better. "
— Mae West

"Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men."
— Joseph Conrad

"There are no good girls gone wrong - just bad girls found out."
— Mae West

"Good sex is like good bridge. If you don't have a good partner, you'd better have a good hand."
— Mae West

"Its not the men in your life that matters, its the life in your men."
— Mae West

"Good women are no fun... The only good woman I can recall in history was Betsy Ross. And all she ever made was a flag."
— Mae West

"
I only read biographies, metaphysics and psychology. I can dream up my own fiction. "
— Mae West