With melted opals for my milk, Pearl-leaf for my cracker.
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
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Do not be afraid of no, Who has so far, so very far to go.
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The poetry is myself.
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Truth-tellers are not always palatable. There is a preference for candy bars.
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We real cool. We Left school. We Lurk late. We Strike straight. We Sing sin. We Thin gin. We Jazz June. We Die soon.
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She was learning to love moments. To love moments for themselves.
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I like the concentration, the crush; I like working with language, as others like working with clay, or notes.
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I think it must be lonely to be God. Nobody loves a master. No.
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Exhaust the little moment soon it dies.
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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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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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Reading is important – read between the lines. Don’t swallow everything.
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Life for my child is simple, and is good.
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Art is a refining and evocative translation of the materials of the world.
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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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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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