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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.In today's sharp sparkle, this winter air, a...

Elizabeth Alexander

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.In today's sharp sparkle, this winter air, a...

Tags: inauguration, inspirational, obama, poetry

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.

Elizabeth Alexander

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.

Tags: forgiveness, love, marriage

About Author
Elizabeth Alexander may refer to:

Elizabeth Alexander (actress) (born 1952), Australian actress
Elizabeth Alexander (scientist) (1908–1958), British born geologist, physicist and radio astronomer
Elizabeth Alexander (businesswoman) (born 1943), chancellor of the University of Melbourne
Elizabeth Alexander (composer) (born 1962), American composer
Elizabeth Alexander (poet) (born 1962), American poet, essayist, playwright and professor
Elizabeth Alexander (press secretary), press secretary for U.S. Vice President Joe Biden

It’s a fact: black people in this country die more easily, at all ages, across genders. Look at how young black men die, and how middle-aged black men drop dead, and how black women are ravaged by HIV...

Elizabeth Alexander

It’s a fact: black people in this country die more easily, at all ages, across genders. Look at how young black men die, and how middle-aged black men drop dead, and how black women are ravaged by HIV...

Tags: blackness, death, race

Now I know my capacity for awe

Elizabeth Alexander

Now I know my capacity for awe

Each of us made it possible for the other. We got something done. Each believed in the other unsurpassingly.

Elizabeth Alexander

Each of us made it possible for the other. We got something done. Each believed in the other unsurpassingly.

In the absence of organized religion, faith abounds, in the form of song and art and food and strong arms.

Elizabeth Alexander

In the absence of organized religion, faith abounds, in the form of song and art and food and strong arms.

Tags: faith, food, religion, song

Art replaces the light that is lost when the day fades, the moment passes, the evanescent extraordinary makes its quicksilver. Art tries to capture that which we know leaves us, as we move in and out...

Elizabeth Alexander

Art replaces the light that is lost when the day fades, the moment passes, the evanescent extraordinary makes its quicksilver. Art tries to capture that which we know leaves us, as we move in and out...

I have not yet learned to use our television DVR. One of the points of marriage is that you split labor. In the olden days that meant one hunted and one gathered; now it means one knows where the tea-...

Elizabeth Alexander

I have not yet learned to use our television DVR. One of the points of marriage is that you split labor. In the olden days that meant one hunted and one gathered; now it means one knows where the tea-...

Tags: love, marriage, tasks

Let everything happen to you: beauty and terror. Just keep going. No feeling is final. Don’t let yourself lose me. Nearby is the country they call life. You will know it by its seriousness. Give me yo...

Elizabeth Alexander

Let everything happen to you: beauty and terror. Just keep going. No feeling is final. Don’t let yourself lose me. Nearby is the country they call life. You will know it by its seriousness. Give me yo...

Loss is not felt in the absence of love.

Elizabeth Alexander

Loss is not felt in the absence of love.

Poetry is what you findin the dirt in the corner,overhear on the bus, God

Elizabeth Alexander

Poetry is what you findin the dirt in the corner,overhear on the bus, God

Poetry, I tell my students,is idiosyncratic. Poetryis where we are ourselves,(though Sterling Brown saidEvery 'I' is a dramatic 'I')digging in the clam flatsfor the shell that snaps,emptying the prove...

Elizabeth Alexander

Poetry, I tell my students,is idiosyncratic. Poetryis where we are ourselves,(though Sterling Brown saidEvery 'I' is a dramatic 'I')digging in the clam flatsfor the shell that snaps,emptying the prove...

Tags: inspirational, love, poetry, social media

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...

Elizabeth Alexander

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...

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.

Elizabeth Alexander

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.

Tags: persona

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.

Elizabeth Alexander

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.

Tags: inspirational, obama, poetry