In the January 2018 issue of Vogue, Taylor Swift starred in a transformative fashion shoot, styled by editor-in-chief Edward Enninful and photographed by Mert & Marcus, and reflected on lessons learned as she moved into the next chapter of her life in a poem written exclusively for British Vogue.

As we prepare to enter 2020 – and Swift stars on the cover of Vogue once again for January 2020 – her verses resonate as much today as they did two years ago. Read the best lyricist in pop’s poetic words on the timely subject of reinvention below.

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The Trick To Holding On

Let go of the ones who hurt you

Let go of the ones you outgrow

Let go of the words they hurl your way

as you’re walking out the door

The only thing cut and dry

In this hedge-maze life

Is the fact that their words will cut

but your tears will dry

They don’t tell you this when you are young

You can’t hold on to everything

Can’t show up for everyone

You pick your poison

Or your cure

Phone numbers you know by heart

And the ones you don’t answer any more

Hold on to the faint recognition in

the eye of a stranger

As it catches you in its lustrous net

How quickly we become intertwined

How wonderful it is to forget

All the times your intuition failed you

But it hasn’t killed you yet

Hold on to childlike whims and moonlight

swims and your blazing self-respect

And if you drive the roads of this town

Ones you’ve gone down so many times before

Flashback to all the times

Life nearly ran you off the road

But tonight your hand is steady

Suddenly you’ll know

The trick to holding on

Was all that letting go

– Taylor Swift

The January issue of British Vogue is out on newsstands on 6 December.

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