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.
GWENDOLYN BROOKSSometimes you have to deal / Devilishly with drowning men in order to swim them to shore.
More Gwendolyn Brooks Quotes
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Exhaust the little moment soon it dies.
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No man can give me any word but Wait.
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Life must be aromatic. There must be scent, somehow there must be some.
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Reading is important – read between the lines. Don’t swallow everything.
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It is brave to be involved.
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I swear to keep the dead upon my mind, / Disdain for all time to be overglad.
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Poetry is life distilled.
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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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What, what am I to do with all of this life?
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I think it must be lonely to be God. Nobody loves a master. No.
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Do not desire to fit in. Desire to oblige yourselves to lead.
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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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The poetry is myself.
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This is the urgency: Live! and have your blooming in the noise of the whirlwind.
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