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I like the concentration, the crush; I like working with language, as others like working with clay, or notes.

Gwendolyn Brooks

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Goodness begins simply with the fact of life itself.
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Beginning Fact Goodness Life Simplicity
I swear to keep the dead upon my mind, / Disdain for all time to be overglad.
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Death Mindset Myself Remember Time
She was learning to love moments. To love moments for themselves.
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Deep Hereslf Learning Love Moments
Truth-tellers are not always palatable. There is a preference for candy bars.
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Chocolate Preference Truth
As you get older, you find that often the wheat, disentangling itself from the chaff, comes out to meet you.
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Food Growth Old Yourself
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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Guide Lost Magic Scream Time
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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Death Gold Identity Moments
People are so in need, in need of help. People want so much that they do not know.
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Help Knowledge Need People
Art is a refining and evocative translation of the materials of the world.
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Art Material Translation World
No man can give me any word but Wait.
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Man Patience Poet Wait Word Writing
Sometimes you have to deal / Devilishly with drowning men in order to swim them to shore.
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Deal Devil Friendship Man Save Yourself
We are each other’s harvest; we are each other’s business; we are each other’s magnitude and bond.
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Bond Business Each Other Friendship Relationship
This is the urgency: Live! and have your blooming in the noise of the whirlwind.
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Live Noise Urgent World Yourself
When you love a man, he becomes more than a body. His physical limbs expand, and his outline recedes, vanishes. He is rich and sweet and right. He is part of the world, the atmosphere, the blue sky and the blue water.
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Blue Body Himself Love Man Rich Right Sweet Water World
Life must be aromatic. There must be scent, somehow there must be some.
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Life Perfume Sweet
What I’m fighting for now in my work… for an expression relevant to all manner of blacks, poems I could take into a tavern, into the street, into the halls of a housing project.
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