Live not for Battles Won. Live not for The-End-of-the-Song. Live in the along.
GWENDOLYN BROOKSWe are each other’s harvest; we are each other’s business; we are each other’s magnitude and bond.
More Gwendolyn Brooks Quotes
-
-
I swear to keep the dead upon my mind, / Disdain for all time to be overglad.
GWENDOLYN BROOKS -
With melted opals for my milk, Pearl-leaf for my cracker.
GWENDOLYN BROOKS -
Sometimes you have to deal / Devilishly with drowning men in order to swim them to shore.
GWENDOLYN BROOKS -
Be yourself. Don’t imitate other poets. You are as important as they are.
GWENDOLYN BROOKS -
To be in love Is to touch things with a lighter hand. In yourself you stretch, you are well.
GWENDOLYN BROOKS -
The forties and fifties were years of high poet-incense; the language-flowers were thickly sweet. Those flowers whined and begged white folks to pick them, to find them lovable. Then the ’60s: Independent fire!
GWENDOLYN BROOKS -
Art is a refining and evocative translation of the materials of the world.
GWENDOLYN BROOKS -
It frightens me to realize that, if I had died before the age of fifty, I would have died a ‘Negro’ fraction.
GWENDOLYN BROOKS -
We are each other’s harvest; we are each other’s business; we are each other’s magnitude and bond.
GWENDOLYN BROOKS -
What I’m fighting for now in my work… for an expression relevant to all manner of blacks, poems I could take into a tavern, into the street, into the halls of a housing project.
GWENDOLYN BROOKS -
Very early in life I became fascinated with the wonders language can achieve. And I began playing with words.
GWENDOLYN BROOKS -
I think it must be lonely to be God. Nobody loves a master. No.
GWENDOLYN BROOKS -
We don’t ask a flower any special reason for its existence. We just look at it and are able to accept it as being something different from ourselves.
GWENDOLYN BROOKS -
Poetry is life distilled.
GWENDOLYN BROOKS -
Even if you are not ready for day it cannot always be night.
GWENDOLYN BROOKS