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 BROOKSI think there are things for all of us to do as long as we’re here and we’re healthy.
More Gwendolyn Brooks Quotes
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Sometimes you have to deal / Devilishly with drowning men in order to swim them to shore.
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Writing is a delicious agony.
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Art is a refining and evocative translation of the materials of the world.
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Don’t let anyone call you a minority if you’re black or Hispanic or belong to some other ethnic group. You’re not less than anybody else.
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It is brave to be involved.
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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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What, what am I to do with all of this life?
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Even if you are not ready for day it cannot always be night.
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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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Each body has its art.
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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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Beware the easy griefs / that fool and fuel nothing.
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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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This is the urgency: Live! and have your blooming in the noise of the whirlwind.
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To be in love Is to touch things with a lighter hand. In yourself you stretch, you are well.
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