With melted opals for my milk, Pearl-leaf for my cracker.
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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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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Already I am no longer looked at with lechery or love.
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Truth-tellers are not always palatable. There is a preference for candy bars.
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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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I believe we should all know each other, we human carriers of so many pleasurable differences. To not know is to doubt, to shrink from, sidestep or destroy.
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I am interested in telling my particular truth as I have seen it.
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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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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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One reason cats are happier than people is that they have no newspapers.
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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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Art hurts. Art urges voyages – and it is easier to stay at home.
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Beware the easy griefs / that fool and fuel nothing.
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The music is in minors.
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I am a writer perhaps because I am not a talker.
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Poetry is life distilled.
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