Life must be aromatic. There must be scent, somehow there must be some.
GWENDOLYN BROOKSBooks are meat and medicine and flame and flight and flower steel, stitch, cloud and clout, and drumbeats on the air.
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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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Beware the easy griefs / that fool and fuel nothing.
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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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Do not be afraid of no, Who has so far, so very far to go.
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She was learning to love moments. To love moments for themselves.
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With melted opals for my milk, Pearl-leaf for my cracker.
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When you use the term minority or minorities in reference to people, you’re telling them that they’re less than somebody else.
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Art is a refining and evocative translation of the materials of the world.
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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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I swear to keep the dead upon my mind, / Disdain for all time to be overglad.
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When white and black meet today, sometimes there is a ready understanding that there has been an encounter between two human beings. But often there is only, or chiefly, an awareness that Two Colors are in the room.
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Don’t let anyone call you a minority if you’re black or Hispanic or belong to some other ethnic group. You’re not less than anybody else.
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I think it must be lonely to be God. Nobody loves a master. No.
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The poetry is myself.
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Poetry is life distilled.
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