Exhaust the little moment. Soon it dies. And be it gash or gold it will not come again in this identical guise.
GWENDOLYN BROOKSExhaust the little moment. Soon it dies. And be it gash or gold it will not come again in this identical guise.
GWENDOLYN BROOKSEven if you are not ready for day it cannot always be night.
GWENDOLYN BROOKSI 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.
GWENDOLYN BROOKSVery early in life I became fascinated with the wonders language can achieve. And I began playing with words.
GWENDOLYN BROOKSAbortions will not let you forget. You remember the children you got that you did not get.
GWENDOLYN BROOKSSometimes you have to deal / Devilishly with drowning men in order to swim them to shore.
GWENDOLYN BROOKSBeware the easy griefs / that fool and fuel nothing.
GWENDOLYN BROOKSDo not desire to fit in. Desire to oblige yourselves to lead.
GWENDOLYN BROOKSI believe we should all know each other, we human carriers of so many pleasurable differences. To not know is to doubt, to shrink from, sidestep or destroy.
GWENDOLYN BROOKSThere can be no whiter whiteness than this one: An insurance man’s shirt on its morning run.
GWENDOLYN BROOKSThere are no magics or elves or timely godmothers to guide us. We are lost, must wizard a track through our own screaming weed.
GWENDOLYN BROOKSThe music is in minors.
GWENDOLYN BROOKSOne reason cats are happier than people is that they have no newspapers.
GWENDOLYN BROOKSWe are each other’s harvest; we are each other’s business; we are each other’s magnitude and bond.
GWENDOLYN BROOKSAlready I am no longer looked at with lechery or love.
GWENDOLYN BROOKSLife must be aromatic. There must be scent, somehow there must be some.
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