Each body has its art.
GWENDOLYN BROOKSGood health is a duty to yourself, to your contemporaries, to your inheritors, to the progress of the world.
More Gwendolyn Brooks Quotes
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Writing is a delicious agony.
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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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Do not be afraid of no, Who has so far, so very far to go.
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Beware the easy griefs / that fool and fuel nothing.
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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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It is brave to be involved. To be not fearful to be unresolved.
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One reason cats are happier than people is that they have no newspapers.
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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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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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I am interested in telling my particular truth as I have seen it.
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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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Do not desire to fit in. Desire to oblige yourselves to lead.
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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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This is the urgency: Live! and have your blooming in the noise of the whirlwind.
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The poetry is myself.
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