Quotes from My Two Favourite Spoken Word Poets

While some people may be boy-crazy or food-crazy or book-crazy, we all know I’m quote-crazy.  So here’s a list of some inspirational quotes from my two favourite spoken word poets Sarah Kay and Shane Koyczan.

• “Our lives will only ever always continue to be a balancing act, that has less to do with pain and more to do with beauty” ~Shane Koyczan

  

• “There is nothing more beautiful than the way the ocean continues to kiss the sand, no matter how many times it’s sent away” ~Sarah Kay

• “Scrape the grey sky clean, realize that every dark cloud is a smokescreen meant to blind us from the truth” ~Shane Koyczan

• “You can only fit so many words in a postcard, only so many in a phone call, only so many into space before you forget that words are sometimes used for things other than filling emptiness” ~Sarah Kay

•  “I have loved this life.  I smile because I have tiny dreams that play hopscotch at the corners of my mouth.  And every time I breathe they float, every time I laugh, they fly kites.” ~Shane Koyczan

• “Life will hit you hard in the face, wait for you to get back up just so it can kick you in the stomach. But getting the wind knocked out of you is the only way to remind your lungs how much they like the taste of air.”  ~Sarah Kay

• “Tomorrow, I want to bring you a piece of paper with the telephone number of a taxi cab company that knows the exact address of my arms, so the day you need a hug I’m going to be there for that.” ~Shane Koyczan

• “’There’ll be days like this’…When you open your hands to catch, and wind up with only blisters and bruises. When you try to step out of the phone booth and try to fly , and the very people you want to save, are the ones standing on your cape.” ~Sarah Kay

• “We come from the mentality, that rarely sees the horror in symmetry or the beauty in non-conformity”  ~Shane Koyczan

• “When I meet you, in that moment, I’m no longer a part of your future. I start quickly becoming part of your past. But in that instant, I get to share your present. And you, you get to share mine. And that is the greatest present of all.” ~Sarah Kay

• “Maybe the best we can hope for is that those we leave behind find comfort in knowing, that we’re born out of love, and not science. That biology explains the how, but love explains the why” ~Shane Koyczan

• “This world is made out of sugar. It can crumble so easily but don’t be afraid to stick your tongue out and taste it.” ~Sarah Kay

• “Effort is the siamese twin of success” ~Shane Koyczan

• “There is hurt that cannot be fixed by band aids or poetry…because no matter how wide you stretch your fingers, your hands will always be too small to catch all the pain you want to heal. Believe me, I’ve tried.” ~Sarah Kay

• “Don’t let your luggage define your travels/each life unravels differently/and the experiences are what make up/the colours of our tapestry”  ~Shane Koyczan

• “They could tell you how rare this is. But they could tell you how rare friendship always is. The chances are slim. The cards are always stacked against you, the odds are always low. But I have seen the best of you, and the worst of you, and I choose both.” ~Sarah Kay & Phil Kaye