I swear to keep the dead upon my mind, / Disdain for all time to be overglad.
GWENDOLYN BROOKSBe yourself. Don’t imitate other poets. You are as important as they are.
More Gwendolyn Brooks Quotes
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Truth-tellers are not always palatable. There is a preference for candy bars.
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Be yourself. Don’t imitate other poets. You are as important as they are.
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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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As you get older, you find that often the wheat, disentangling itself from the chaff, comes out to meet you.
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Exhaust the little moment soon it dies.
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The poetry is myself.
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With melted opals for my milk, Pearl-leaf for my cracker.
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Do not desire to fit in. Desire to oblige yourselves to lead.
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What, what am I to do with all of this life?
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The music is in minors.
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To be in love Is to touch things with a lighter hand. In yourself you stretch, you are well.
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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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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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There can be no whiter whiteness than this one: An insurance man’s shirt on its morning run.
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No man can give me any word but Wait.
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