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Brenda Shaughnessy is a contemporary American poet known for her unique poetic style and profound emotional expression. Her work often explores personal experiences, social issues, and deep questions about human existence.

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“Isn’t blood a woman’s ink?”

Blood Feminism Woman

Book:So Much Synth

Source: So Much Synth

“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.”

Heart Mean Ideas Feelings Force Meetings Terror

Author:Brenda Shaughnessy

“How anyone becomes herself/is a mystery.”

Mystery

Author:Brenda Shaughnessy

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

Ifs Pain Grief What If

Book:Our Andromeda

Source: Our Andromeda

“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.”

Laughter Heartache Vulnerability Desperate Muscles Sweetest Saddest

Author:Brenda Shaughnessy

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

Mean Emotion Despair Range Range Of Emotions

Author:Brenda Shaughnessy

“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.”

Complexes Heavy Life And Death Cake Metals Alex Lemons Heavy Metal Birthday Cake

Author:Brenda Shaughnessy

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

Mean Whole Break Broken Again And Again

Book:Human Dark with Sugar

Source: Human Dark with Sugar

“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.”

Made Order Easy Baby Spills

Book:Our Andromeda

Source: Our Andromeda

About the Author

Born: March 21, 1970
Known for: Poet
Quotes: 9

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