Poetry is life distilled.
GWENDOLYN BROOKSThe music is in minors.
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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Art is a refining and evocative translation of the materials of the world.
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This is the urgency: Live! and have your blooming in the noise of the whirlwind.
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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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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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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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We are each other’s harvest; we are each other’s business; we are each other’s magnitude and bond.
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Each body has its art.
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Reading is important – read between the lines. Don’t swallow everything.
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And if sun comes how shall we greet him? shall we not dread him, shall we not fear him after so lengthy a session with shade?
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I think it must be lonely to be God. Nobody loves a master. No.
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Writing is a delicious agony.
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Exhaust the little moment soon it dies.
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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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