I am stuffing your mouth with your promises and watching you vomit them out upon my face.
Interpretation
This quote illustrates the painful betrayal of someone who fails to keep their promises.
Anne Sexton's quote vividly conveys the sense of disappointment and anger that arises when trust is broken in a relationship. It suggests that promises meant to be uplifting or reassuring can turn into sources of pain when they are not honored, reflecting the darker side of human interactions and the emotional aftermath of broken commitments.
In practice
During a discussion about the importance of keeping commitments in relationships.
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...
The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much. In public affairs, in the rebuilding of civilization, something less dramatic and emotional is needed, namely tolerance.
The roots of homophobia are fear. Fear and more fear.
A lord may love the men that he commands, but he cannot be a friend to them. One day he may need to sit in judgement on them, or send them forth to die.
People have to start talking to know more about other cultures and to understand each other.
Sanity and clarity are more important for me and I'm willing to give up a lot of shimmer for it. I'm willing to have more boring friends, who are sane.
It only takes a second to call a girl fat and She'll take a lifetime trying to starve herself.. think before you act.
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