What is poetry? Do not enquire. The secret dies by prying. How does the heart beat? I fainted when I saw it on the screen, opening and closing like a flower ... Poetry is like this, it is life moving,… — Elizabeth Smart Copy Share Image
The #MeToo campaign is monumental. It is giving a voice to so many too scared to speak out before. — Elizabeth Smart Copy Share Image
“. . when we have passed our great test, we are then given opportunities to reach out to other people. We are able to… — Elizabeth Smart Copy Share Image
All time is now, and time can do no better. Nothing can ever be more now than now, and before this nothing was. — Elizabeth Smart Copy Share Image
If I had my wilderness, nature could be my lover. What can I do in the paved streets for my thirsty roots? I waste… — Elizabeth Smart Copy Share Image
“Well get a furious weapon. Look how the springs are whirling round and you with your hat askew, without time to catch your breath… — Elizabeth Smart Copy Share Image
“... I have ceased to care about anything. I have no personal ambition, or even the desire that people call me nice, or pretty, or witty. Nor do I have any use for sensation, nor do I care. Cessation. It is a technical circle, encircling, cycle, of giving the body to be burned, but having no charity. ... What can… — Elizabeth Smart Copy Share
I think forgiveness is probably one of the greatest forms of self-love there is because you don't do forgiveness for anybody else. My captors… — Elizabeth Smart Copy Share Image
“I also believe in faith. Faith in a loving and kind heavenly Father who will always care about me. Faith that my worth will never be diminished. Faith that God knows how I feel and that I can depend on him to help me through it all. I believe that God not only suffered for me, but that He will… — Elizabeth Smart Copy Share
“I didn't understand most of what he was saying. I should have had to understand what he was saying. I was still so young.… — Elizabeth Smart Copy Share Image
It is wrong for any person to ever judge someone in any situation saying, 'Well, why didn't you try to run? Why didn't you… — Elizabeth Smart Copy Share Image
“When we are faced with a challenge, it is very easy to be mad or upset. But when we have passed our great test,… — Elizabeth Smart Copy Share Image
