There are no magics or elves or timely godmothers to guide us. We are lost, must wizard a track through our own screaming weed.
GWENDOLYN BROOKSThis is the urgency: Live! and have your blooming in the noise of the whirlwind.
More Gwendolyn Brooks Quotes
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Art is a refining and evocative translation of the materials of the world.
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Do not desire to fit in. Desire to oblige yourselves to lead.
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One reason cats are happier than people is that they have no newspapers.
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Beware the easy griefs / that fool and fuel nothing.
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This is the urgency: Live! and have your blooming in the noise of the whirlwind.
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What, what am I to do with all of this life?
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I am a writer perhaps because I am not a talker. It has always been hard for me to say exactly what I mean in speech But if I have written a clumsiness, I may erase it.
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Poetry is life distilled.
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The poetry is myself.
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To be in love Is to touch things with a lighter hand. In yourself you stretch, you are well.
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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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And if sun comes how shall we greet him? shall we not dread him, shall we not fear him after so lengthy a session with shade?
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Life for my child is simple, and is good.
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Each body has its art.
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Reading is important – read between the lines. Don’t swallow everything.
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