Amanda Gorman is a poetry queen. This particular collection focuses on the COVID-19 pandemic and everything that came along with it.

I’ll let these quotes speak for themselves:

“What are we, if not what we see in another?”

“We might not be fully sure of all that we are. And yet we have endured all that we were.”

“Some days, we just need a place where we can bleed in peace. Our only word for this is Poem.”

“We mourn the past more than we miss it.”

“Often we cannot change without someone in us dying.“

“Words, too, are a type of combat, for we always become what we refuse to say.”