Exhaust the little moment soon it dies.
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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Be yourself. Don’t imitate other poets. You are as important as they are.
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We don’t ask a flower any special reason for its existence. We just look at it and are able to accept it as being something different from ourselves.
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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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Very early in life I became fascinated with the wonders language can achieve. And I began playing with words.
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She was learning to love moments. To love moments for themselves.
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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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As you get older, you find that often the wheat, disentangling itself from the chaff, comes out to meet you.
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No man can give me any word but Wait.
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I think it must be lonely to be God. Nobody loves a master. No.
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Art is a refining and evocative translation of the materials of the world.
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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.
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A writer should get as much education as possible, but just going to school is not enough; if it were, all owners of doctorates would be inspired writers.
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One reason cats are happier than people is that they have no newspapers.
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Reading is important – read between the lines. Don’t swallow everything.
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Life must be aromatic. There must be scent, somehow there must be some.
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