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There can be no whiter whiteness than this one: An insurance man’s shirt on its morning run.

Gwendolyn Brooks

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Even if you are not ready for day it cannot always be night.
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One reason cats are happier than people is that they have no newspapers.
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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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Goodness begins simply with the fact of life itself.
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People are so in need, in need of help. People want so much that they do not know.
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It is brave to be involved. To be not fearful to be unresolved.
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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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Be yourself. Don’t imitate other poets. You are as important as they are.
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Each body has its art.
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Poetry is life distilled.
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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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