It took us losing ourselves To see we require no kingdom Bu… - Amanda Gorman

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It took us losing ourselves To see we require no kingdom But this kinship. It is the nightmare, never The dream, that shocks us awake.

Amanda Gorman

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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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The world still terrifies us. We're told to write what we know. We write what we're afraid of. Only then is our fear made small by what we love.

Lost as we feel, there is no better
Compass than compassion
We find ourselves not by being
The most seen, but the most seeing.

Anyone who has lived
Is an historian & an artifact,
For they hold all their time within them.

It took us losing ourselves To see we require no kingdom But this kinship. It is the nightmare, never The dream, that shocks us awake. - Amanda Gorman

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