Quotes about Vulnerability

God...never again allow me to be satisfied with only my own company. [May I] never feel afraid of needing someone, or of suffering. For there is no suffering worse than the dark grey room where pain cannot reach...

He analyses every strategy and asks: what would I do if I had to fight myself? He thus discover his weak points.

Blessed are those who are not afraid to admit that they don't know something

I really admire stand-up, and I think I would have loved to learn how to do it. I think it's terrifying and thrilling. A really cool thing to do. It's a dying art, in a way.

That's what attracts us to serious paintings, I think: that shortfall, which we might call "personality", or maybe even "pain".

At the end of the day, you know, love does not happen between two perfect people as much as we would wish.

Whenever it feels uncomfortable to tell the truth, that's often the most important time to tell it.

Emotional pain is such a strange feeling. You can forget you're in it—or try to, anyway—and then it sneaks up and finds its way to the surface.

It might be bold to put your work into the world unadorned, but it's probably ineffective.

Be transparent. Let's build a community that allows hard questions and honest conversations so we can stir up transformation in one another.

Anybody who instantly goes from being a poet and a graduate student to being a public figure has to be in a state of shock. First people want to praise you, and then they want to attack you. No one can prepare you for it.

I've been writing poems since I was in the Navy - to Rosalynn. I found I could say things in poems that I never could in prose. Deeper, more personal things. I could write a poem about my mother that I could never tell my mother. Or feelings about being on a submarine that I would have been too embarrassed to share with fellow submariners.