Writing is a delicious agony.
GWENDOLYN BROOKSI 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 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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Very early in life I became fascinated with the wonders language can achieve. And I began playing with words.
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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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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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The poetry is myself.
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Be yourself. Don’t imitate other poets. You are as important as they are.
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Beware the easy griefs / that fool and fuel nothing.
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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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I felt that I had to write. Even if I had never been published, I knew that I would go on writing, enjoying it and experiencing the challenge.
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The music is in minors.
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Exhaust the little moment soon it dies.
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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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Poetry is life distilled.
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Each body has its art.
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