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.
GWENDOLYN BROOKSAnd 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?
More Gwendolyn Brooks Quotes
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Do not desire to fit in. Desire to oblige yourselves to lead.
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This is the urgency: Live! and have your blooming in the noise of the whirlwind.
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I think it must be lonely to be God. Nobody loves a master. No.
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Live not for Battles Won. Live not for The-End-of-the-Song. Live in the along.
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Goodness begins simply with the fact of life itself.
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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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The poetry is myself.
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Art is a refining and evocative translation of the materials of the world.
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Reading is important – read between the lines. Don’t swallow everything.
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Life must be aromatic. There must be scent, somehow there must be some.
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It frightens me to realize that, if I had died before the age of fifty, I would have died a ‘Negro’ fraction.
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When I start writing a poem, I don’t think about models or about what anybody else in the world has done.
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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.
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One reason cats are happier than people is that they have no newspapers.
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Writing is a delicious agony.
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