Kiss me, and you will see how important I am. - Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

"I may never be happy, but tonight I am content."

"I want to write because I have the urge to excel in one medium of translation and expression of life. I can't be satisfied with the colossal job of merely living. Oh, no, I must order life in sonnets and sestinas and provide a verbal reflector for my 60-watt lighted head."

"But writing poems and letters doesn't seem to do much good."

"Is anyone anywhere happy?"

"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."