Do not desire to fit in. Desire to oblige yourselves to lead.
GWENDOLYN BROOKSAbortions will not let you forget. You remember the children you got that you did not get.
More Gwendolyn Brooks Quotes
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She was learning to love moments. To love moments for themselves.
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Exhaust the little moment. Soon it dies. And be it gash or gold it will not come again in this identical guise.
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Each body has its art.
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Art is a refining and evocative translation of the materials of the world.
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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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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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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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Good health is a duty to yourself, to your contemporaries, to your inheritors, to the progress of the world.
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I like the concentration, the crush; I like working with language, as others like working with clay, or notes.
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Be yourself. Don’t imitate other poets. You are as important as they are.
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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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Exhaust the little moment soon it dies.
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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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This is the urgency: Live! and have your blooming in the noise of the whirlwind.
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