“The most Important Things are the Hardest to say.
They are the things you get Ashamed of,
because words Diminish them --
Words Shrink things that seemed Limitless
when they were in your head
to no more than living size when they're brought out.
But it's more than that, isn't it?
The most Important Things
lie too close to wherever your Secret Heart is buried,
like Landmarks
to a Treasure your Enemies would love to steal away.
And you may make Revelations
that cost you dearly
only to have people look at you in a funny way,
not understanding what you've said at all,
or why you thought it was so important
that you almost cried while you were saying it.
That's the worst, I think.
When the Secret stays Locked within
not for want of a Tellar
but for want of an Understanding Ear.”
- Stephen King
(Different Seasons)
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