She was learning to love moments. To love moments for themselves.
GWENDOLYN BROOKSI swear to keep the dead upon my mind, / Disdain for all time to be overglad.
More Gwendolyn Brooks Quotes
-
-
It is brave to be involved. To be not fearful to be unresolved.
GWENDOLYN BROOKS -
Writing is a delicious agony.
GWENDOLYN BROOKS -
Each body has its art.
GWENDOLYN BROOKS -
As you get older, you find that often the wheat, disentangling itself from the chaff, comes out to meet you.
GWENDOLYN BROOKS -
The music is in minors.
GWENDOLYN BROOKS -
Sometimes you have to deal / Devilishly with drowning men in order to swim them to shore.
GWENDOLYN BROOKS -
I am interested in telling my particular truth as I have seen it.
GWENDOLYN BROOKS -
Truth-tellers are not always palatable. There is a preference for candy bars.
GWENDOLYN BROOKS -
What, what am I to do with all of this life?
GWENDOLYN BROOKS -
Already I am no longer looked at with lechery or love.
GWENDOLYN BROOKS -
A writer should get as much education as possible, but just going to school is not enough; if it were, all owners of doctorates would be inspired writers.
GWENDOLYN BROOKS -
There can be no whiter whiteness than this one: An insurance man’s shirt on its morning run.
GWENDOLYN BROOKS -
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.
GWENDOLYN BROOKS -
I think it must be lonely to be God. Nobody loves a master. No.
GWENDOLYN BROOKS -
One reason cats are happier than people is that they have no newspapers.
GWENDOLYN BROOKS