Life must be aromatic. There must be scent, somehow there must be some.
GWENDOLYN BROOKSShe was learning to love moments. To love moments for themselves.
More Gwendolyn Brooks Quotes
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Reading is important – read between the lines. Don’t swallow everything.
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We are each other’s harvest; we are each other’s business; we are each other’s magnitude and bond.
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The poetry is myself.
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Writing is a delicious agony.
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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 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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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.
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Do not desire to fit in. Desire to oblige yourselves to lead.
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Good health is a duty to yourself, to your contemporaries, to your inheritors, to the progress of the world.
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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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As you get older, you find that often the wheat, disentangling itself from the chaff, comes out to meet you.
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I swear to keep the dead upon my mind, / Disdain for all time to be overglad.
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Poetry is life distilled.
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What, what am I to do with all of this life?
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It is brave to be involved.
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