Top 8 Quotes & Sayings by Brenda Shaughnessy

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American poet Brenda Shaughnessy.

Last updated on April 21, 2025.

Brenda Shaughnessy is an American poet.

American - Poet | Born: March 21, 1970

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What if all possible pain was only the grief of truth?

Brenda Shaughnessy

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

Brenda Shaughnessy

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

Strength means...acknowledging each of those feelings, your questions and ideas and faith and terror, and meeting what comes with the full force of your heart.

Brenda Shaughnessy

I've been melted into something too easy to spill. I make more and more of myself in order to make more and more of the baby. He takes it, this making. And somehow he's made more of me, too.

Brenda Shaughnessy

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.

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You are not broken. You break again and again because that's what breaking means. To be whole.

Brenda Shaughnessy

How anyone becomes herself/is a mystery.

Brenda Shaughnessy