Life must be aromatic. There must be scent, somehow there must be some.
GWENDOLYN BROOKSEach body has its art.
More Gwendolyn Brooks Quotes
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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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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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Beware the easy griefs / that fool and fuel nothing.
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No man can give me any word but Wait.
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Exhaust the little moment soon it dies.
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I swear to keep the dead upon my mind, / Disdain for all time to be overglad.
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Do not be afraid of no, Who has so far, so very far to go.
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Don’t let anyone call you a minority if you’re black or Hispanic or belong to some other ethnic group. You’re not less than anybody else.
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I don’t like the idea of the black race being diluted out of existence. I like the idea of all of us being here.
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Poetry is life distilled.
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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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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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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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