Beware the easy griefs / that fool and fuel nothing.
GWENDOLYN BROOKSWriting is a delicious agony.
More Gwendolyn Brooks Quotes
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The poetry is myself.
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Life must be aromatic. There must be scent, somehow there must be some.
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Poetry is life distilled.
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This is the urgency: Live! and have your blooming in the noise of the whirlwind.
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Each body has its art.
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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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I am interested in telling my particular truth as I have seen it.
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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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Very early in life I became fascinated with the wonders language can achieve. And I began playing with words.
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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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I am a writer perhaps because I am not a talker.
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Even if you are not ready for day it cannot always be night.
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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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It frightens me to realize that, if I had died before the age of fifty, I would have died a ‘Negro’ fraction.
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When 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.
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