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I tell poets that when a line just floats into your head, don’t pay attention ’cause it probably has floated into somebody else’s head.

Gwendolyn Brooks

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I tell poets that when a line just floats into your head, don’t pay attention ’cause it probably has floated into somebody else’s head.
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No man can give me any word but Wait.
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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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Writing is a delicious agony.
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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 felt that I had to write. Even if I had never been published, I knew that I would go on writing, enjoying it and experiencing the challenge.
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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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Sometimes you have to deal / Devilishly with drowning men in order to swim them to shore.
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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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People are so in need, in need of help. People want so much that they do not know.
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Abortions will not let you forget. You remember the children you got that you did not get.
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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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This is the urgency: Live! and have your blooming in the noise of the whirlwind.
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Art hurts. Art urges voyages – and it is easier to stay at home.
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Don’t let anyone call you a minority if you’re black or Hispanic or belong to some other ethnic group. You’re not less than anybody else.
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