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born 1962 United States
Elizabeth Alexander (born May 30, 1962) is an American poet, writer, and literary scholar who has served as the president of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation since 2018.
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Perhaps tragedies are only tragedies in the presence of love, which confers meaning to loss.”
“I wake up grateful, for life is a gift.
In all marriages there is struggle and ours was no different in that regard. But we always came to the other shore, dusted off, and said, There you are, my love.
What if the mightiest word is love, love beyond marital, filial, national. Love that casts a widening pool of light. Love with no need to preempt grievance.
Henry Ford believed the soul of a person is located in their last breath and so captured the last breath of his best friend Thomas Edison in a test tube and kept it evermore.
It happened; it is part of who we are; it is our beauty and our terror. We must be gleaners from what life has set before us.
In the absence of organized religion, faith abounds, in the form of song and art and food and strong arms
To live in memory and in dreams is a cruel comfort
Have you located your passion as if this was your last night on earth?
I been in sorrow’s kitchen and done licked out all the pots. Nobody knows the trouble I seen. Steal away to Jesus. I ain’t got long to stay here.
They shared an unshakeable belief in beauty, in overflow, in everythingness, the bursting, indelible beauty in a world where there is so much suffering and wounding and pain
Using the voice is a physical act, one that first announces the existence of the body of residence and then trumpets its arrival in a public space
The story seems to begin with catastrophe but in fact began earlier and is not a tragedy but rather a love story. Perhaps tragedies are only tragedies in the presence of love, which confers meaning to loss. Loss is not felt in the absence of love.”
Loss is not felt in the absence of love
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