Life must be aromatic. There must be scent, somehow there must be some.
GWENDOLYN BROOKSWriting is a delicious agony.
More Gwendolyn Brooks Quotes
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As you get older, you find that often the wheat, disentangling itself from the chaff, comes out to meet you.
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When white and black meet today, sometimes there is a ready understanding that there has been an encounter between two human beings. But often there is only, or chiefly, an awareness that Two Colors are in the room.
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Beware the easy griefs / that fool and fuel nothing.
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Goodness begins simply with the fact of life itself.
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The poetry is myself.
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Exhaust the little moment soon it dies.
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I am interested in telling my particular truth as I have seen it.
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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.
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Already I am no longer looked at with lechery or love.
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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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Be yourself. Don’t imitate other poets. You are as important as they are.
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It is brave to be involved.
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Poetry is life distilled.
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There can be no whiter whiteness than this one: An insurance man’s shirt on its morning run.
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