Poetry is life distilled.
GWENDOLYN BROOKSWriting is a delicious agony.
More Gwendolyn Brooks Quotes
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I think there are things for all of us to do as long as we’re here and we’re healthy.
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I don’t like the idea of the black race being diluted out of existence. I like the idea of all of us being here.
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Reading is important – read between the lines. Don’t swallow everything.
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Do not be afraid of no, Who has so far, so very far to go.
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It frightens me to realize that, if I had died before the age of fifty, I would have died a ‘Negro’ fraction.
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Books are meat and medicine and flame and flight and flower steel, stitch, cloud and clout, and drumbeats on the air.
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I am a writer perhaps because I am not a talker. It has always been hard for me to say exactly what I mean in speech But if I have written a clumsiness, I may erase 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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She was learning to love moments. To love moments for themselves.
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The poetry is myself.
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Life must be aromatic. There must be scent, somehow there must be some.
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It is brave to be involved.
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I think it must be lonely to be God. Nobody loves a master. No.
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No man can give me any word but Wait.
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What, what am I to do with all of this life?
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