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Sometimes you have to deal / Devilishly with drowning men in order to swim them to shore.

Gwendolyn Brooks

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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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Abortions will not let you forget. You remember the children you got that you did not get.
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What, what am I to do with all of this life?
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I felt that I had to write. Even if I had never been published, I knew that I would go on writing, enjoying it and experiencing the challenge.
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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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Be yourself. Don’t imitate other poets. You are as important as they are.
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With melted opals for my milk, Pearl-leaf for my cracker.
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Milk Myself
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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Guide Lost Magic Scream Time
What I’m fighting for now in my work… for an expression relevant to all manner of blacks, poems I could take into a tavern, into the street, into the halls of a housing project.
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Poetry is life distilled.
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Life One Liner Poetry
Good health is a duty to yourself, to your contemporaries, to your inheritors, to the progress of the world.
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Goodness Health Inheritance Progress World
Art is a refining and evocative translation of the materials of the world.
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I think it must be lonely to be God. Nobody loves a master. No.
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Deep God Lonely Love Master Thinking
She was learning to love moments. To love moments for themselves.
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Writing is a delicious agony.
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