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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.

Gwendolyn Brooks

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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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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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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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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 a writer perhaps because I am not a talker.
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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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It is brave to be involved. To be not fearful to be unresolved.
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She was learning to love moments. To love moments for themselves.
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Goodness begins simply with the fact of life itself.
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Art hurts. Art urges voyages – and it is easier to stay at home.
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What I’m fighting for now in my work… for an expression relevant to all manner of blacks, poems I could take into a tavern, into the street, into the halls of a housing project.
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No man can give me any word but Wait.
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Exhaust the little moment soon it dies.
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Art is a refining and evocative translation of the materials of the world.
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With melted opals for my milk, Pearl-leaf for my cracker.
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Do not be afraid of no, Who has so far, so very far to go.
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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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Good health is a duty to yourself, to your contemporaries, to your inheritors, to the progress of the world.
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Life must be aromatic. There must be scent, somehow there must be some.
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Poetry is life distilled.
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Even if you are not ready for day it cannot always be night.
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I think it must be lonely to be God. Nobody loves a master. No.
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