Exhaust the little moment soon it dies.
GWENDOLYN BROOKSDo not be afraid of no, Who has so far, so very far to go.
More Gwendolyn Brooks Quotes
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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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Art hurts. Art urges voyages – and it is easier to stay at home.
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I think it must be lonely to be God. Nobody loves a master. No.
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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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Reading is important – read between the lines. Don’t swallow everything.
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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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The music is in minors.
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Writing is a delicious agony.
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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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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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Life must be aromatic. There must be scent, somehow there must be some.
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Goodness begins simply with the fact of life itself.
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I 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.
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I swear to keep the dead upon my mind, / Disdain for all time to be overglad.
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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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