Very early in life I became fascinated with the wonders language can achieve. And I began playing with words.
GWENDOLYN BROOKSExhaust the little moment. Soon it dies. And be it gash or gold it will not come again in this identical guise.
More Gwendolyn Brooks Quotes
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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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Life must be aromatic. There must be scent, somehow there must be some.
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It is brave to be involved. To be not fearful to be unresolved.
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What, what am I to do with all of this life?
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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 swear to keep the dead upon my mind, / Disdain for all time to be overglad.
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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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Reading is important – read between the lines. Don’t swallow everything.
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Art hurts. Art urges voyages – and it is easier to stay at home.
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Do not be afraid of no, Who has so far, so very far to go.
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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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I like the concentration, the crush; I like working with language, as others like working with clay, or notes.
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Goodness begins simply with the fact of life itself.
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Each body has its art.
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I believe we should all know each other, we human carriers of so many pleasurable differences. To not know is to doubt, to shrink from, sidestep or destroy.
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