Top 35 Amanda Gorman Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “There is always a light, if only we’re brave enough to see it. If only we’re brave enough to be it.”

— Amanda Gorman

2. “It’s said that ignorance is bliss. Ignorance is this: a vine that sneaks up a tree, killing not by poison, but by blocking out its light.”

— Amanda Gorman

3. “Only when we’re drowning do we understand how fierce our feet can kick.”

— Amanda Gorman

4. “There is no better compass than compassion.”

— Amanda Gorman

5. “Because being American is more than a pride we inherit – It’s the past we step into, and how we repair it.”

— Amanda Gorman

6. “Shall this leave us bitter? Or better? Grieve. Then choose.”

— Amanda Gorman

7. “That even as we grieved, we grew, That even as we hurt, we hoped, That even as we tired, we tried. That we’ll forever be tied together.”

— Amanda Gorman

8. “Just like a skill or any art, We cannot possess hope without practicing it. It is the most fundamental craft we demand of ourselves.”

— Amanda Gorman

9. “We’ve learned that quiet isn’t always peace, And the norms and notions of what “just is” Isn’t always justice.”

— Amanda Gorman

10. “The only way to correctly predict The future is to pave it, Is to brave it. The breakage is where we begin. The rupture is for remembering.”

— Amanda Gorman

11. “The first bud of spring sings the other seeds into joining her uprising.”

— Amanda Gorman

12. “When asking how others were faring, We did not expect an honest or full response. What words can answer how we’re remaining alive?”

— Amanda Gorman

13. “Goodbye, by which we say to another – Thanks for offering your life into mine. By Goodbye, we truly mean: Let us be able to say hello again.”

— Amanda Gorman

14. “Who are we, if not What we make of the dark.”

— Amanda Gorman

15. “In this truth, in this faith, we trust. For while we have our eyes on the future, History has its eyes on us.”

— Amanda Gorman

16. “That is the promised glade, The hill we climb, if only we dare it: Because being American is more than a pride we inherit – It’s the past we step into, and how we repair it.”

— Amanda Gorman

17. “We ignite not in the light, but in lack thereof, For it is in loss that we truly learn to love. In this chaos, we will discover clarity. In suffering, we must find solidarity.”

— Amanda Gorman

18. “Contrary to popular belief, it’s not easy for us to lie. Even the body has tells, even our blood runs toward truth.”

— Amanda Gorman

19. “Our scars are the brightest Parts of us.”

— Amanda Gorman

20. “We’ve learned that quiet isn’t always peace.”

— Amanda Gorman

21. “Since the world is round, There is no way to walk away From each other, for even then We are coming back together. Some distances, if allowed to grow, Are merely the greatest proximities.”

— Amanda Gorman

22. “We labor equally When we fall as when we rise. Always remember that What happened to us Happened through us. We wonder how close Can we come to light Before we shut our eyes. How long can we stand the dark Before we become more than our shadows.”

— Amanda Gorman

23. “The crescent moon, The night’s lucent lesion. We are felled oaks beneath it, Branches full of empty. Look closer. What we share is more Than what we’ve shed.”

— Amanda Gorman

24. “It isn’t knowing, but remembering, that makes us create.”

— Amanda Gorman

25. “Loss is the cost of loving.”

— Amanda Gorman

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

— Amanda Gorman

27. “Like a page, we are only legible when opened to one another.”

— Amanda Gorman

28. “Anxiety is a living body, Poised beside us like a shadow. It is the last creature standing, The only beast who loves us Enough to stay.”

— Amanda Gorman

29. “Some days, we just need a place Where we can bleed in peace.”

— Amanda Gorman

30. “Scripture tells us to envision that: “Everyone shall sit under their own vine and fig tree, And no one shall make them afraid.”

— Amanda Gorman

31. “To be kept to the edges of existence is the inheritance of the marginalized.”

— Amanda Gorman

32. “The norms and notions of what “just is’ isn’t always “justice”.”

— Amanda Gorman

33. “This feeling might be pain, poetry, or both. But at least it is no lie. Ignorance isn’t bliss. Ignorance is to miss: to block ourselves from seeing sky.”

— Amanda Gorman

34. “Perhaps pain is like a name, made to sing just for you.”

— Amanda Gorman

35. “The slain fueled the lamps of a world latched to nights, our whole century brightened by blood.”

— Amanda Gorman

36. “We are desperate to flatten the curve. Oh, how we miss curving into each other.”

— Amanda Gorman