Exhaust the little moment soon it dies.
GWENDOLYN BROOKSI like the concentration, the crush; I like working with language, as others like working with clay, or notes.
More Gwendolyn Brooks Quotes
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Poetry is life distilled.
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Abortions will not let you forget. You remember the children you got that you did not get.
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Goodness begins simply with the fact of life itself.
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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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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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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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Beware the easy griefs / that fool and fuel nothing.
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I think it must be lonely to be God. Nobody loves a master. No.
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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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I am a writer perhaps because I am not a talker.
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She was learning to love moments. To love moments for themselves.
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What, what am I to do with all of this life?
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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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Already I am no longer looked at with lechery or love.
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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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