Writing is a delicious agony.
GWENDOLYN BROOKSBooks are meat and medicine and flame and flight and flower steel, stitch, cloud and clout, and drumbeats on the air.
More Gwendolyn Brooks Quotes
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What, what am I to do with all of this life?
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It is brave to be involved. To be not fearful to be unresolved.
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It is brave to be involved.
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The music is in minors.
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Do not desire to fit in. Desire to oblige yourselves to lead.
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Poetry is life distilled.
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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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I like the concentration, the crush; I like working with language, as others like working with clay, or notes.
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Be yourself. Don’t imitate other poets. You are as important as they are.
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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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Goodness begins simply with the fact of life itself.
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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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Live not for Battles Won. Live not for The-End-of-the-Song. Live in the along.
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Abortions will not let you forget. You remember the children you got that you did not get.
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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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