I like the concentration, the crush; I like working with language, as others like working with clay, or notes.
GWENDOLYN BROOKSEven if you are not ready for day it cannot always be night.
More Gwendolyn Brooks Quotes
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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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Writing is a delicious agony.
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Exhaust the little moment soon it dies.
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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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Very early in life I became fascinated with the wonders language can achieve. And I began playing with words.
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Art hurts. Art urges voyages – and it is easier to stay at home.
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I think there are things for all of us to do as long as we’re here and we’re healthy.
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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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The forties and fifties were years of high poet-incense; the language-flowers were thickly sweet. Those flowers whined and begged white folks to pick them, to find them lovable. Then the ’60s: Independent fire!
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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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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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Life for my child is simple, and is good.
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With melted opals for my milk, Pearl-leaf for my cracker.
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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.
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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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