The poetry is myself.
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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Art is a refining and evocative translation of the materials of the world.
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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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I believe we should all know each other, we human carriers of so many pleasurable differences. To not know is to doubt, to shrink from, sidestep or destroy.
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It is brave to be involved.
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I think it must be lonely to be God. Nobody loves a master. No.
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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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She was learning to love moments. To love moments for themselves.
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Life must be aromatic. There must be scent, somehow there must be some.
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Do not be afraid of no, Who has so far, so very far to go.
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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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The forties and fifties were years of high poet-incense; the language-flowers were thickly sweet. Those flowers whined and begged white folks to pick them, to find them lovable. Then the ’60s: Independent fire!
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We don’t ask a flower any special reason for its existence. We just look at it and are able to accept it as being something different from ourselves.
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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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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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