We real cool. We Left school. We Lurk late. We Strike straight. We Sing sin. We Thin gin. We Jazz June. We Die soon.
GWENDOLYN BROOKSNo man can give me any word but Wait.
More Gwendolyn Brooks Quotes
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Do not be afraid of no, Who has so far, so very far to go.
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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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People are so in need, in need of help. People want so much that they do not know.
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Writing is a delicious agony.
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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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Be yourself. Don’t imitate other poets. You are as important as they are.
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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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Each body has its art.
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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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Live not for Battles Won. Live not for The-End-of-the-Song. Live in the along.
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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 swear to keep the dead upon my mind, / Disdain for all time to be overglad.
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Art hurts. Art urges voyages – and it is easier to stay at home.
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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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Good health is a duty to yourself, to your contemporaries, to your inheritors, to the progress of the world.
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