Sarah Kay Quotes

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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 getting the wind knocked out of you is the only way to remind your lungs how much they like the taste of air.

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  Air, Wind, Waiting

  Sarah Kay, “If I should have a daughter”

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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.

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  World, Sugar, Taste

  "Sarah Kay's Way with Words". "On Being" with Krista Tippett, onbeing.org. June 13, 2013.

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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.

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  Love, Inspirational, Cute

  Sarah Kay, “If I should have a daughter”

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• No matter your wreckage. There will be someone to find you beautiful, despite the cruddy metal. Your ruin is not to be hidden behind paint and canvas. Let them see the cracks. Someone will come to sing into these empty spaces.

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  Beautiful, Space, Cracks

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• It does not matter how strong your gravity is, we were always meant to fly.

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  Strong, Doe, Matter

  "Sarah Kay's Way with Words". "On Being" with Krista Tippett, onbeing.org. June 13, 2013.

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• Remember that good things come in threes and so do bad things and always apologize when you've done something wrong but don't you ever apologize for the way your eyes refuse to stop shining.

  Sarah Kay

  Eye, Shining, Done

  "Sarah Kay's Way with Words". Interview with Krista Tippett, onbeing.org. June 13, 2013.

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• There are parts of me I only recognize from photographs.

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  Photograph

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• Not all poetry wants to be storytelling. And not all storytelling wants to be poetry. But great storytellers and great poets share something in common: They had something to say, and did.

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  Want, Common, Poet

  "How I got the courage to tell my story" by Sarah Kay, www.cnn.com. May 1, 2011.

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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.

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  Mistake, Night, Decision

  Sarah Kay's Commencement Address at Scripps College in Claremont, California, www.scrippscollege.edu. May 20, 2015.

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• They'll be days like this" my momma said.
  When you open your hands to catch, and wind up with only blisters and bruises.
  When you try to step out of the phone booth and try to fly , and the very people you want to save, are the ones standing on your cape.
  When your boots will fill with rain, and you'll be up to your knees with disappointment
  And those are the very days you have all the more reason to say "Thank you".

  Sarah Kay

  Disappointment, Rain, Phones

  Sarah Kay, “If I should have a daughter”

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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 too small to catch all the pain you want to heal. Believe me, I’ve tried.

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  Hurt, Pain, Believe

  Sarah Kay, “If I should have a daughter”

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• Most days it feels as if the world is whirling around me and I am standing still. In slow motion, I watch the colors blur; people and faces all become a massive wash.

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  Color, People, Watches

  Sarah Kay (2009). “Pieces of Glass: A Moment of Tragedy, a Lifetime of Faith”, p.8, Harper Collins

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• If I should have a daughter, instead of "Mom," she's going to call me "Point B," because that way she knows that no matter what happens, at least she can always find her way to me.

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  Mom, Daughter, Should Have

  "If I should have a daughter". TED Talk, www.ted.com. March 2011.

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• Hands learn more than minds do, hands learn how to hold other hands.

  Sarah Kay

  Hands, Mind

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• Poetry is like pooping. If there is a poem inside of you, it has to come out. Sometimes it can be really difficult and take longer than you'd like (it may even be painful), but other times it can be really easy and happen much faster than you expected. But either way - it is important, and it feels so much better when it's done.

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  Important, Done, May

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• I think there is a human instinct to tell stories, no matter who you are or where you live.

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  Thinking, Stories, Where You Live

  "How I got the courage to tell my story" by Sarah Kay, www.cnn.com. May 1, 2011.

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• You are not made of metaphors,
  Not apologies, not excuses.

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  Apology, Excuse, Metaphor

  Sarah Kay (2016). “The Type”, p.13, Hachette UK

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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 though you've won, you still end up with muddy knees and burns on your hands? Is there a word for that? I wish there was.

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  Life, War, Winning

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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 that words are sometimes used for things other than filling emptiness.

  Sarah Kay

  Phones, Space, Phone Calls

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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 everywhere else that I’ve been.

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  Motivation, Inspiration, Use

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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 palm, each cracked knuckle is a missed punch or years in a factory.

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  Past, Hands, Years

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• I love books that create worlds for me that I don't want to leave. I recently lost my entire life to Haruki Murakami - 1Q84. I tell people that book ruined my life in the best possible way. I couldn't think of anything else for weeks after I read it.

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  Book, Thinking, People

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• Fingers interlocked like a beautiful accordion of flesh or a zipper of prayer

  Sarah Kay

  Beautiful, Prayer, Zippers

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• I often tell people to stop being afraid of writing bad poetry, or bad anything. I think that a lot of times, when people claim that they have writer's block, or that they get stuck, it's just because they're scared of writing bad things.

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  Block, Writing, Thinking

  Source: saseye.com

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• I have always thought of poetry as an act of celebration. Just by nature of writing a poem you are taking the time to dwell on whatever it is that you're writing about...you can be celebrating anger, you can be celebrating sorrow... you are spending the time to focus and observe and try to understand the various parts of being human.

  Sarah Kay

  Writing, Focus, Sorrow

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