Very early in life I became fascinated with the wonders language can achieve. And I began playing with words.
GWENDOLYN BROOKSThe forties and fifties were years of high poet-incense; the language-flowers were thickly sweet. Those flowers whined and begged white folks to pick them, to find them lovable. Then the ’60s: Independent fire!
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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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We are each other’s harvest; we are each other’s business; we are each other’s magnitude and bond.
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Even if you are not ready for day it cannot always be night.
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With melted opals for my milk, Pearl-leaf for my cracker.
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Poetry is life distilled.
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Art is a refining and evocative translation of the materials of the world.
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Life for my child is simple, and is good.
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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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What, what am I to do with all of this life?
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Goodness begins simply with the fact of life itself.
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The music is in minors.
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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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Exhaust the little moment soon it dies.
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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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