The real mystery is this strange need. Why can't we just hide it and shut up? Why do we have to blab? Why do human beings need to confess?
Interpretation
This quote explores the inherent human need to confess and share our inner thoughts and emotions.
Ted Hughes questions the fundamental nature of human beings and their inclination to share their deepest feelings and secrets. He points out the paradox of wanting to hide one's vulnerabilities while simultaneously feeling an uncontrollable urge to disclose them to others, suggesting that this need may be essential to human connection and understanding.
In practice
In a discussion on mental health, this quote could be used to highlight the importance of sharing one's struggles.
...imagine what you are writing about. See it and live it. Do not think it up laboriously, as if you were working out mental arithmetic. Just look at it, touch it, smell it, listen to it, turn yourself into it. When you do this, the words look after themselves, like magic.
The inmost spirit of poetry, in other words, is at bottom, in every recorded case, the voice of pain – and the physical body, so to speak, of poetry, is the treatment by which the poet tries to reconcile that pain with the world.
Nobody wanted your dance, Nobody wanted your strange glitter, your floundering Drowning life and your effort to save yourself, Treading water, dancing the dark turmoil, Looking for something to give.
Haven’t you heard of the music of the spheres?” asked the dragon. “It’s the music that space makes to itself. All the spirits inside all the stars are singing. I’m a star spirit. I sing too. The music of the spheres is what makes space so peaceful.
You solve it as you get older, when you reach the point where you've tasted so much that you can somehow sacrifice certain things more easily, and you have a more tolerant view of things like possessiveness (your own) and a broader acceptance of the pains and the losses.
And the elephant sings deep in the forest-maze_x000D_ _x000D_ About a star of deathless and painless peace_x000D_ _x000D_ But no astronomer can find where it is.
With sadness specifically, in America you read about people medicating to avoid sadness. They don't want to experience sadness, and yet it's such a vital part of being human.
Like a good chess player, Satan is always trying to maneuver you into a position where you can save your castle only by losing your bishop.
You see, there's the way things seemed and then there's the way things were and one is so often the total reverse of the other.
Prayer sweeps the battlefield, slays the enemy, and buries the bones.
We are gripped by God’s will of love, and must help carry out that will in this world, in small things as in great things, in saving as in pardoning. To be glad instruments of God’s love in this imperfect world is the service to which we are called.
Men are generally more careful of the breed of their horses and dogs than of their children.
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