I try to take care_x000D_ and be gentle to them._x000D_ Words and eggs must be handled with care._x000D_ Once broken they are impossible things to repair.
Interpretation
This quote emphasizes the fragility of both our words and delicate things, highlighting the importance of being careful in our interactions.
Anne Sexton's quote draws a parallel between the fragility of eggs and the impact of words. Just as eggs can break easily and cannot be repaired once shattered, words can have lasting consequences and once spoken, they cannot be taken back. This serves as a reminder to be mindful of our language and actions towards others, as they can deeply affect relationships and emotional well-being.
In practice
In a self-help seminar to stress the importance of mindful communication.
The Witch's Life" When I was a child there was an old woman in our neighborhood whom we called The Witch. All day she peered from her second story window from behind the wrinkled curtains and sometimes she would open the window and yell: Get out of my life! She had hair like kelp and a voice like a boulder. I think of her sometimes now and wonder if I am becoming her.
Do you like me?” No answer. Silence bounced, fell off his tongue and sat between us and clogged my throat. It slaughtered my trust. It tore cigarettes out of my mouth. We exchanged blind words, and I did not cry, I did not beg, but blackness filled my ears, blackness lunged in my heart, and something that had been good, a sort of kindly oxygen, turned into a gas oven.
Don't bite till you know if it's bread or stone.
Abundance is scooped from abundance yet abundance remains.
I find now, swallowing one teaspoon of pain, that it drops downward to the past where it mixes with last year’s cupful and downward into a decade’s quart and downward into a lifetime’s ocean. I alternate treading water and deadman’s float.
I am your dwarf. I am the enemy within. I am the boss of your dreams. See. Your hand shakes. It is not palsy or booze. It is your Doppelganger trying to get out. Beware...Beware...
A sad person who is so involved with his sadness that he mistakes it for reality will have a hard time seeing himself as anything but sad. For him, the sadness is not a feeling that he experiences - it is him.
Wherever you go, go with all your heart.
You are responsible for your life. You can't keep blaming somebody else for your dysfunction. Life is really about moving on.
The man was such an intellectual he was of almost no use.
The giving way to a less sin makes way for the committing of a greater
I know no disease of the soul but ignorance, a pernicious evil, the darkener of man's life, the disturber of his reason, and common confounder of truth.
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