Ada Limon's 2024 TIME Women of the Year Toast

Poet laureate Ada Limón dedicated her award to women artists across the world. She read the poem “In Praise of Mystery: A Poem for Europa,” which will be engraved on NASA’s spacecraft that will travel to the second moon of Jupiter, and she called it an “offering” to the “wounded world.”

“We are creatures of constant awe, curious at beauty, at leaf and blossom, at grief and pleasure, sun and shadow,” Limón recited. “And it is not darkness that unites us, not the cold distance of space, but the offering of water, each drop of rain, each rivulet, each pulse, each vein.”

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