Live not for Battles Won. Live not for The-End-of-the-Song. Live in the along.
GWENDOLYN BROOKSWriting is a delicious agony.
More Gwendolyn Brooks Quotes
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She was learning to love moments. To love moments for themselves.
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Poetry is life distilled.
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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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The poetry is myself.
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I know that the Black emphasis must be not against white but FOR Black.
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Life must be aromatic. There must be scent, somehow there must be some.
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One reason cats are happier than people is that they have no newspapers.
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The forties and fifties were years of high poet-incense; the language-flowers were thickly sweet. Those flowers whined and begged white folks to pick them, to find them lovable. Then the ’60s: Independent fire!
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I am interested in telling my particular truth as I have seen it.
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I swear to keep the dead upon my mind, / Disdain for all time to be overglad.
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Goodness begins simply with the fact of life itself.
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The music is in minors.
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No man can give me any word but Wait.
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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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I think it must be lonely to be God. Nobody loves a master. No.
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