I am a writer perhaps because I am not a talker.
GWENDOLYN BROOKSWhen 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.
More Gwendolyn Brooks Quotes
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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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Poetry is life distilled.
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One reason cats are happier than people is that they have no newspapers.
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The poetry is myself.
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Each body has its art.
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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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No man can give me any word but Wait.
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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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Already I am no longer looked at with lechery or love.
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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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I swear to keep the dead upon my mind, / Disdain for all time to be overglad.
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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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Even if you are not ready for day it cannot always be night.
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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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This is the urgency: Live! and have your blooming in the noise of the whirlwind.
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