Books are meat and medicine and flame and flight and flower steel, stitch, cloud and clout, and drumbeats on the air.
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. And be it gash or gold it will not come again in this identical guise.
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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 like the concentration, the crush; I like working with language, as others like working with clay, or notes.
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The music is in minors.
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When you love a man, he becomes more than a body. His physical limbs expand, and his outline recedes, vanishes. He is rich and sweet and right. He is part of the world, the atmosphere, the blue sky and the blue water.
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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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Be yourself. Don’t imitate other poets. You are as important as they are.
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Art hurts. Art urges voyages – and it is easier to stay at home.
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Writing is a delicious agony.
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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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People are so in need, in need of help. People want so much that they do not know.
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Life for my child is simple, and is good.
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Exhaust the little moment soon it dies.
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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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Good health is a duty to yourself, to your contemporaries, to your inheritors, to the progress of the world.
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