You who have inhabited me in the deepest and most broken place, are going, going
Interpretation
This quote expresses a profound and intimate connection between individuals, highlighting the impact of shared experiences, particularly in times of suffering.
Anne Sexton's quote speaks to the deep emotional bonds formed through shared pain and vulnerability. The phrase indicates that those who have walked alongside us in our most challenging times create a lasting imprint on our lives, suggesting that love often thrives in the face of adversity as we find solace and understanding in one another's presence.
In practice
During a wedding speech, to highlight the strength of their relationship formed through hardships.
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...
Not grace, or zeal, love only was my call,_x000D_ _x000D_ And if I lose thy love, I lose my all.
In itself, homosexuality is as limiting as heterosexuality: the ideal should be to be capable of loving a woman or a man; either, a human being, without feeling fear, restraint, or obligation.
If I take offence easily; if I am content to continue in cold unfriendliness, though friendship be possible, then I know nothing of Calvary love.
When two people loved each other they worked together always, two against the world, a little company. Joy was shared; trouble was split. You had an ally.
He who desires to see the living God face-to-face should not seek him in the empty, firmament of his mind, but in human love.
If you are one of earth’s inhabitants, how blest your father, and your gentle mother, blest all your kin. I know what happiness must send the warm tears to their eyes, each time they see their wondrous child go to the dancing! But one man’s destiny is more than blest—he who prevails, and takes you as his bride. Never have I laid eyes on equal beauty in man or woman. I am hushed indeed.
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