Brenda Shaughnessy Professions : Poet Born : March 21, 1970 Browse All Authors Top 8 quotes by 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 heart mean ideas 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 heartache desperate laughter How anyone becomes herself/is a mystery. Brenda Shaughnessy mystery Strength means honoring your entire range of emotion, even your despair and heartbreak. Brenda Shaughnessy despair emotion mean You are not broken. You break again Brenda Shaughnessy break broken mean What if all possible Brenda Shaughnessy what-if pain grief 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 alex life-and-death cake I've been melted into something Brenda Shaughnessy easy baby order Similar Authors Abdellatif Laabi poet Ihara Saikaku poet Abram Joseph Ryan poet Ingeborg Bachmann poet Izumi Shikibu poet Bion of Smyrna poet All Authors