Exhaust the little moment soon it dies.
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?
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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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I am interested in telling my particular truth as I have seen it.
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As you get older, you find that often the wheat, disentangling itself from the chaff, comes out to meet you.
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I think it must be lonely to be God. Nobody loves a master. No.
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People are so in need, in need of help. People want so much that they do not know.
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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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I like the concentration, the crush; I like working with language, as others like working with clay, or notes.
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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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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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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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Art hurts. Art urges voyages – and it is easier to stay at home.
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There can be no whiter whiteness than this one: An insurance man’s shirt on its morning run.
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A writer should get as much education as possible, but just going to school is not enough; if it were, all owners of doctorates would be inspired writers.
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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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Live not for Battles Won. Live not for The-End-of-the-Song. Live in the along.
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She was learning to love moments. To love moments for themselves.
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This is the urgency: Live! and have your blooming in the noise of the whirlwind.
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Beware the easy griefs / that fool and fuel nothing.
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It is brave to be involved. To be not fearful to be unresolved.
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Do not desire to fit in. Desire to oblige yourselves to lead.
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Be yourself. Don’t imitate other poets. You are as important as they are.
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The poetry is myself.
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There are no magics or elves or timely godmothers to guide us. We are lost, must wizard a track through our own screaming weed.
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The music is in minors.
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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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When you use the term minority or minorities in reference to people, you’re telling them that they’re less than somebody else.
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