Life must be aromatic. There must be scent, somehow there must be some.
GWENDOLYN BROOKSThere are no magics or elves or timely godmothers to guide us. We are lost, must wizard a track through our own screaming weed.
More Gwendolyn Brooks Quotes
-
-
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.
GWENDOLYN BROOKS -
When white and black meet today, sometimes there is a ready understanding that there has been an encounter between two human beings. But often there is only, or chiefly, an awareness that Two Colors are in the room.
GWENDOLYN BROOKS -
When I start writing a poem, I don’t think about models or about what anybody else in the world has done.
GWENDOLYN BROOKS -
Exhaust the little moment. Soon it dies. And be it gash or gold it will not come again in this identical guise.
GWENDOLYN BROOKS -
As you get older, you find that often the wheat, disentangling itself from the chaff, comes out to meet you.
GWENDOLYN BROOKS -
I swear to keep the dead upon my mind, / Disdain for all time to be overglad.
GWENDOLYN BROOKS -
Abortions will not let you forget. You remember the children you got that you did not get.
GWENDOLYN BROOKS -
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.
GWENDOLYN BROOKS -
What, what am I to do with all of this life?
GWENDOLYN BROOKS -
She was learning to love moments. To love moments for themselves.
GWENDOLYN BROOKS -
Do not be afraid of no, Who has so far, so very far to go.
GWENDOLYN BROOKS -
Truth-tellers are not always palatable. There is a preference for candy bars.
GWENDOLYN BROOKS -
Poetry is life distilled.
GWENDOLYN BROOKS -
Reading is important – read between the lines. Don’t swallow everything.
GWENDOLYN BROOKS -
To be in love Is to touch things with a lighter hand. In yourself you stretch, you are well.
GWENDOLYN BROOKS