"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. There is nothing so agonizing, or so dangerous, as memory unexpressed, unexplored, unexplained & unexploded. Grief is the grenade that always goes off."
---Amanda Gorman
"Hope isn't something you’re given, it’s something you practice. It's not an object or a noun that I can buy or demand of somebody to bestow upon me. It is an action. It's a craft. And in the same way that poetry necessitates that I practice it every single day, I think hope is its own art form. It demands that we return to it, that we revisit it, that we live it. And that is something that doesn't “give me hope,” but allows me to give hope to myself again and again."
-- Amanda Gorman
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