As you get older, you find that often the wheat, disentangling itself from the chaff, comes out to meet you.
GWENDOLYN BROOKSWhat, what am I to do with all of this life?
More Gwendolyn Brooks Quotes
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Poetry is life distilled.
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Do not desire to fit in. Desire to oblige yourselves to lead.
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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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Do not be afraid of no, Who has so far, so very far to go.
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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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When you love a man, he becomes more than a body. His physical limbs expand, and his outline recedes, vanishes. He is rich and sweet and right. He is part of the world, the atmosphere, the blue sky and the blue water.
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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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Sometimes you have to deal / Devilishly with drowning men in order to swim them to shore.
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Goodness begins simply with the fact of life itself.
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The music is in minors.
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Truth-tellers are not always palatable. There is a preference for candy bars.
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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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I am interested in telling my particular truth as I have seen it.
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It is brave to be involved.
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We don’t ask a flower any special reason for its existence. We just look at it and are able to accept it as being something different from ourselves.
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