"Emerald as heavy as a golf course, ruby as dark as an afterbirth, diamond as white as sun on the sea."
"I try to take care and be gentle to them. Words and eggs must be handled with care. Once broken they are impossible things to repair."
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Source: Anne Sexton (1975). “The Awful Rowing Toward God”, Boston : Houghton Mifflin
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