Top 5 Brenda Shaughnessy Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “I came to see that what constitutes strength is not just a muscle or will. It can also include the most desperate vulnerability, the saddest heartache, the lightest, sweetest laughter.”

— Brenda Shaughnessy

2. “Strength means honoring your entire range of emotion, even your despair and heartbreak.”

— Brenda Shaughnessy

3. “Death and life are, for most of us, too complex to comprehend, but Alex Lemon can pretty casually, accurately, and marvelously correlate them to heavy metal and birthday cake.”

— Brenda Shaughnessy

4. “And now we eat. The eponymous eating. Don’t want butter, don’t want salt. Dinner is thinner but it’s not my fault.”

— Brenda Shaughnessy

5. “I do see the poet as someone whose role it is to push back against anti-intellectualism, anti-activism, and passivity in general. The purpose of this pushing back is to show that there are always infinite sides to a story, amazing unimagined perspectives on any narrative, and no limit to how weird and wild and unexpected our language and its meanings can get.”

— Brenda Shaughnessy

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