This is the urgency: Live! and have your blooming in the noise of the whirlwind.
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 like the concentration, the crush; I like working with language, as others like working with clay, or notes.
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I am interested in telling my particular truth as I have seen it.
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Beware the easy griefs / that fool and fuel nothing.
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Writing is a delicious agony.
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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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With melted opals for my milk, Pearl-leaf for my cracker.
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The music is in minors.
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And if sun comes how shall we greet him? shall we not dread him, shall we not fear him after so lengthy a session with shade?
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Live not for Battles Won. Live not for The-End-of-the-Song. Live in the along.
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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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Already I am no longer looked at with lechery or love.
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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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What, what am I to do with all of this life?
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I am a writer perhaps because I am not a talker. It has always been hard for me to say exactly what I mean in speech But if I have written a clumsiness, I may erase it.
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