It is brave to be involved. To be not fearful to be unresolved.
GWENDOLYN BROOKSIt is brave to be involved. To be not fearful to be unresolved.
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Art hurts. Art urges voyages – and it is easier to stay at home.
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Even if you are not ready for day it cannot always be night.
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People are so in need, in need of help. People want so much that they do not know.
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I swear to keep the dead upon my mind, / Disdain for all time to be overglad.
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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.
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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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Good health is a duty to yourself, to your contemporaries, to your inheritors, to the progress of the world.
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We real cool. We Left school. We Lurk late. We Strike straight. We Sing sin. We Thin gin. We Jazz June. We Die soon.
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I think it must be lonely to be God. Nobody loves a master. No.
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Do not be afraid of no, Who has so far, so very far to go.
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It is brave to be involved.
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Goodness begins simply with the fact of life itself.
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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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As you get older, you find that often the wheat, disentangling itself from the chaff, comes out to meet you.
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