Live not for Battles Won. Live not for The-End-of-the-Song. Live in the along.
GWENDOLYN BROOKSI swear to keep the dead upon my mind, / Disdain for all time to be overglad.
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Already I am no longer looked at with lechery or love.
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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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There can be no whiter whiteness than this one: An insurance man’s shirt on its morning run.
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Exhaust the little moment soon it dies.
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Be yourself. Don’t imitate other poets. You are as important as they are.
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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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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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Don’t let anyone call you a minority if you’re black or Hispanic or belong to some other ethnic group. You’re not less than anybody else.
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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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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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I think it must be lonely to be God. Nobody loves a master. No.
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With melted opals for my milk, Pearl-leaf for my cracker.
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What, what am I to do with all of this life?
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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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