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Brenda Shaughnessy

Brenda Shaughnessy (born 1970) is an American poet.

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You are not broken. You break again and again because that's what breaking means. To be whole.

Break, Breaking, Broken, Mean, Whole

How anyone becomes herself
is a mystery.

Becomes, Mystery

I've been melted into something too easy to spill. I make more and more of myself in order to make more and more of the baby. He takes it, this making. And somehow he's made more of me, too.

Baby, Easy, Making, Order, Somehow, Takes

What if all possible pain was only the grief of truth?

Grief, Pain, Possible, Truth, What If

Strength means honoring your entire range of emotion, even your despair and heartbreak.

Despair, Emotion, Mean, Range, Strength

Death and life are, for most of us, too complex to comprehend, but Alex Lemon can pretty casually, accurately, and marvelously correlate them to heavy metal and birthday cake.

Alex, Cake, Complex, Life And Death, Marvelously

Strength means. . . acknowledging each of those feelings, your questions and ideas and faith and terror, and meeting what comes with the full force of your heart.

Feelings, Force, Heart, Ideas, Mean

I came to see that what constitutes strength is not just a muscle or will. It can also include the most desperate vulnerability, the saddest heartache, the lightest, sweetest laughter.

Constitutes, Desperate, Heartache, Laughter, Muscle, Strength

John Shaffer

John Shaffer

Mikhail Grabovski

Mikhail Grabovski

Trot Nixon

Trot Nixon

Susan Rothenberg

Susan Rothenberg

Akiva Schaffer

Akiva Schaffer

Stanley Williams

Stanley Williams

Thomas Kinkade

Thomas Kinkade

Salo Wittmayer Baron

Salo Wittmayer Baron

Brooke Burns

Brooke Burns

James Holman

James Holman

Pedro Pierluisi

Pedro Pierluisi

Charles Starkweather

Charles Starkweather