It is brave to be involved.
GWENDOLYN BROOKSTo be in love Is to touch things with a lighter hand. In yourself you stretch, you are well.
More Gwendolyn Brooks Quotes
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No man can give me any word but Wait.
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I know that the Black emphasis must be not against white but FOR Black.
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Writing is a delicious agony.
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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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With melted opals for my milk, Pearl-leaf for my cracker.
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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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I swear to keep the dead upon my mind, / Disdain for all time to be overglad.
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What, what am I to do with all of this life?
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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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Goodness begins simply with the fact of life itself.
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I am interested in telling my particular truth as I have seen it.
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Poetry is life distilled.
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When I start writing a poem, I don’t think about models or about what anybody else in the world has done.
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Sometimes you have to deal / Devilishly with drowning men in order to swim them to shore.
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Reading is important – read between the lines. Don’t swallow everything.
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