That’s kind of the challenging thing about writing an inaugural poem. You’re speaking to everyone, but you don’t also want to speak for everyone.
AMANDA GORMANBut as for the future, I foresee a world which is more creative, more open, more loving, more ecologically friendly, more honest about its history and progress, and I think a lot of those contributions will be made by young people.
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I think it made me all that much stronger of a writer when you have to teach yourself how to say words from scratch.
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Truth is to act out of the best of ourselves.
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We’ve learned that quiet isn’t always peace and the norms and notions of what just is, isn’t always justice.
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I close my eyes and I am with this army of young women standing in a line and I imagine us walking forward together.
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We know. We believe. And we act, because it is our civic duty.
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Poetry has never been the language of barriers, it’s always been the language of bridges.
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No matter how you say it, the hill we climb is a hill we climb together.
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But as for the future, I foresee a world which is more creative, more open, more loving, more ecologically friendly, more honest about its history and progress, and I think a lot of those contributions will be made by young people.
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Let each dawn find us courageous, brought closer, heeding the lights before the fight is over.
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It was so incredible meeting Lady Gaga. I mean I’m gaga for Gaga, literally. We kind of just each flew to each other like magnets after the ceremony ended and we were both just crying and hugging.
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Give us the ballot, and we will no longer have to worry the federal government about our basic rights.
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Poetry and language are often at the heartbeat of movements for change.
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Poetry is the lens we use to interrogate the history we stand on and the future we stand for.
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I am my own best mirror.
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The oration of poetry, I consider to be its own art form and tradition.
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