Even if you are not ready for day it cannot always be night.
GWENDOLYN BROOKSA 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.
More Gwendolyn Brooks Quotes
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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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Exhaust the little moment soon it dies.
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Life must be aromatic. There must be scent, somehow there must be some.
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Writing is a delicious agony.
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I think it must be lonely to be God. Nobody loves a master. No.
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The poetry is myself.
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Life for my child is simple, and is good.
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Poetry is life distilled.
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Be yourself. Don’t imitate other poets. You are as important as they are.
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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.
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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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Do not be afraid of no, Who has so far, so very far to go.
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Each body has its art.
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Books are meat and medicine and flame and flight and flower steel, stitch, cloud and clout, and drumbeats on the air.
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