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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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Very early in life I became fascinated with the wonders language can achieve. And I began playing with words.
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There are no magics or elves or timely godmothers to guide us. We are lost, must wizard a track through our own screaming weed.
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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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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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One reason cats are happier than people is that they have no newspapers.
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The music is in minors.
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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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Already I am no longer looked at with lechery or love.
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No man can give me any word but Wait.
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Each body has its art.
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Do not be afraid of no, Who has so far, so very far to go.
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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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When I start writing a poem, I don’t think about models or about what anybody else in the world has done.
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I swear to keep the dead upon my mind, / Disdain for all time to be overglad.
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It is brave to be involved.
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A writer should get as much education as possible, but just going to school is not enough; if it were, all owners of doctorates would be inspired writers.
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