<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=450078" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Untrustworthy Speaker</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Don't listen to me; my heart's been broken.<br>I don't see anything objectively.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I know myself; I've learned to hear like a psychiatrist.<br>When I speak passionately,<br>That's when I'm least to be trusted.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">It's very sad, really: all my life I've been praised<br>For my intelligence, my powers of language, of insight-<br>In the end they're wasted-</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I never see myself.<br>Standing on the front steps. Holding my sisters hand.<br>That's why I can't account<br>For the bruises on her arm where the sleeve ends . . .</div><div style="margin:10px 0">In my own mind, I'm invisible: that's why I'm dangerous.<br>People like me, who seem selfless.<br>We're the cripples, the liars:<br>We're the ones who should be factored out<br>In the interest of truth.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">When I'm quiet, that's when the truth emerges.<br>A clear sky, the clouds like white fibers.<br>Underneath, a little gray house. The azaleas<br>Red and bright pink.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">If you want the truth, you have to close yourself<br>To the older sister, block her out:<br>When I living thing is hurt like that<br>In its deepest workings,<br>All function is altered.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">That's why I'm not to be trusted.<br>Because a wound to the heart<br>Is also a wound to the mind.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Louise+Gluck">Louise Gluck</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=450078" data-title="The Untrustworthy Speaker de Louise Gluck" data-description="Don't listen to me; my heart's been broken. I don't see anything objectively. I know myself; I've learned to hear like a psychiatrist. When I speak passionately, That's when I'm least to be trusted. It's very sad, really: all my life I've been p..."></div> </div> </div>

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