"If you’re alive, you’re afraid. If you’re not afraid, then you’re not paying attention. The only thing we have to fear is having no fear itself — having no feeling on behalf of whom and what we’ve lost, whom and what we love." — Amanda Gorman www.nytimes.com/2022/01/20/o...

Opinion | Amanda Gorman: Why I Almost Didn’t Read My Poem at the Inauguration (Published 2022)

The poet reflects on her experience at the inauguration ceremony and the life her poem — and this country — has lived since then.