Amanda Gorman Quotes

American poet and activist

Amanda Gorman (born 7 March 1998) is an American poet and social activist. She published the poetry book The One for Whom Food Is Not Enough in 2015, and became the first National Youth Poet Laureate in 2017. She studied sociology at Harvard College, and graduated cum laude as a member of Phi Beta Kappa. She received worldwide attention with her recitation of her poem "The Hill We Climb" written for the inauguration of US President Joe Biden.

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Alternative Names: Amanda S. C. Gorman

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Writing, truth-telling to one another, is an act of hope-making when hope is hardest found. What place have we in our histories except the present.

We might not be fully sure of all that we are. & yet we have endured all that we were.

The crescent moon, The night’s lucent lesion. We are felled oaks beneath it, Branches full of empty. Look closer. What we share is more Than what we’ve shed.

To be haunted is to be hunted
By a history that is still hurting,
Needing healing as much as we do.

We destroy everything good just so it will not shame us. How easy it is to both leave & love this place.

Storytelling is the way that unarticulated memory becomes art, becomes artifact, becomes fact, becomes felt again, becomes free. Empires have been raised & razed on much less.

Let the globe, if nothing else, say this is true:
That even as we grieved, we grew
That even as we hurt, we hoped
That even as we tired, we tried

When asking how others were faring
We did not expect an honest or full response.
What words can answer how we're remaining alive?

Writing, truth-telling to one another, is an act of hope-making when hope is hardest found.

Our whole year swallowed, As if by a massive maw. What else could stomach Our hearts, huge with hurt, Everyone & everything hell