I swear to keep the dead upon my mind, / Disdain for all time to be overglad.
GWENDOLYN BROOKSThe poetry is myself.
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She was learning to love moments. To love moments for themselves.
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No man can give me any word but Wait.
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The music is in minors.
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With melted opals for my milk, Pearl-leaf for my cracker.
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Writing is a delicious agony.
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It is brave to be involved.
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And if sun comes how shall we greet him? shall we not dread him, shall we not fear him after so lengthy a session with shade?
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Very early in life I became fascinated with the wonders language can achieve. And I began playing with words.
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I believe we should all know each other, we human carriers of so many pleasurable differences. To not know is to doubt, to shrink from, sidestep or destroy.
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What, what am I to do with all of this life?
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Beware the easy griefs / that fool and fuel nothing.
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Live not for Battles Won. Live not for The-End-of-the-Song. Live in the along.
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To be in love Is to touch things with a lighter hand. In yourself you stretch, you are well.
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I know that the Black emphasis must be not against white but FOR Black.
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There are no magics or elves or timely godmothers to guide us. We are lost, must wizard a track through our own screaming weed.
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