Sarah Kay Quotes
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Because there's nothing more beautiful than the way the ocean refuses to stop kissing the shoreline, no matter how many times it's sent away.
Beautiful
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If I should have a daughter…“Instead of “Momâ€, she’s gonna call me “Point B.
Call
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Life will hit you hard in the face, wait for you to get back up just so it can kick you in the stomach. But…
Air
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You can only fit so many words in a postcard, only so many in a phone call, only so many into space before you forget…
Call
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My self-confidence can be measured out in teaspoons mixed into my poetry, and it still always tastes funny in my mouth.
Always Tastes
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Such a little thing really, a kiss... most people don't give it a moment's consideration. They kiss on meeting, they kiss on parting, that simple…
Basic
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It does not matter how strong your gravity is, we were always meant to fly.
Always Meant
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It is equally important to listen as it is to speak.
Equally
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Some people read palms to tell your future, but I read hands to tell your past. Each scar makes a story worth telling. Each callused…
Callused
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If I should have a daughter… I’m gonna paint the solar system on the backs of her hands so she has to learn the entire…
Backs
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Forgive yourself for the decisions you have made, the ones you still call mistakes when you tuck them in at night
Call
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Is there a word for the moment you win tug-of-war? When the weight gives, and all that extra rope comes hurtling towards you, how even…
All
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It’s not just the adage ‘write what you know,’ it’s about gathering up all of the knowledge and experience you’ve collected up to now to…
Adage
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I use poetry to help me work through what I don’t understand, but I show up to each new poem with a backpack full of…
Backpack
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This world is made out of sugar. It can crumble so easily but don’t be afraid to stick your tongue out and taste it.
Afraid
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There is hurt that cannot be fixed by band aids or poetrybecause no matter how wide you stretch your fingers, your hands will always be…
Aids
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Hands learn more than minds do, hands learn how to hold other hands...
Hands
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Hiroshimaâ€, I find a few of the lines to be very poignant yet hopeful. These lines are: “But in Hiroshima, some people were wiped clean…
All
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Fingers interlocked like a beautiful accordion of flesh or a zipper of prayer
Accordion
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I want [my daughter] to look at the world through the underside of a glass-bottom boat, to look through a microscope at the galaxies that…
Boat
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