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Through poetry we shall catch the conscience of a nation.

Amanda Gorman

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  I try to approach reading in front of millions of people as I would reading in somebody’s living room.

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  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.

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  No matter how you say it, the hill we climb is a hill we climb together.

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  To hone my voice, I read everything, from books to cereal boxes, three times: once for fun, the second time to learn something new about the writing craft, and the third time was to improve that piece.

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  We know. We believe. And we act, because it is our civic duty.

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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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  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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  What contributed to my writing early on is how my mom encouraged it. She kept the TV off because she wanted my siblings and I to be engaged and active. So we made forts, put on plays, musicals, and I wrote like crazy.

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  The fight isn’t over – it’s just begun. It’s time to suit up for a battle that might determine the war.

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  Poetry is – it’s an art form, but, to me, it’s also a weapon, it’s also an instrument. It’s the ability to make ideas that have been known, felt and said. And that’s a real, I think, type of duty for the poet.

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  When you have to teach yourself how to say sounds, when you have to be highly concerned about pronunciation, it gives you a certain awareness of sonics, of the auditory experience.

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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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  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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  See the line where the sky meets the sea.

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  Poetry and language are often at the heartbeat of movements for change.

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