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.
GWENDOLYN BROOKSBe yourself. Don’t imitate other poets. You are as important as they are.
More Gwendolyn Brooks Quotes
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What, what am I to do with all of this life?
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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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Poetry is life distilled.
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I swear to keep the dead upon my mind, / Disdain for all time to be overglad.
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We are each other’s harvest; we are each other’s business; we are each other’s magnitude and bond.
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I am interested in telling my particular truth as I have seen it.
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Live not for Battles Won. Live not for The-End-of-the-Song. Live in the along.
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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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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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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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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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It is brave to be involved. To be not fearful to be unresolved.
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The poetry is myself.
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Be yourself. Don’t imitate other poets. You are as important as they are.
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Good health is a duty to yourself, to your contemporaries, to your inheritors, to the progress of the world.
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