Poetry is life distilled.
GWENDOLYN BROOKSAlready I am no longer looked at with lechery or love.
More Gwendolyn Brooks Quotes
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Even if you are not ready for day it cannot always be night.
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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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Art is a refining and evocative translation of the materials of the world.
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Be yourself. Don’t imitate other poets. You are as important as they are.
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The music is in minors.
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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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Goodness begins simply with the fact of life itself.
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I am a writer perhaps because I am not a talker.
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Writing is a delicious agony.
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I am interested in telling my particular truth as I have seen it.
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I swear to keep the dead upon my mind, / Disdain for all time to be overglad.
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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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Reading is important – read between the lines. Don’t swallow everything.
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It is brave to be involved.
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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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