With melted opals for my milk, Pearl-leaf for my cracker.
GWENDOLYN BROOKSArt hurts. Art urges voyages – and it is easier to stay at home.
More Gwendolyn Brooks Quotes
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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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Reading is important – read between the lines. Don’t swallow everything.
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She was learning to love moments. To love moments for themselves.
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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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I think there are things for all of us to do as long as we’re here and we’re healthy.
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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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Beware the easy griefs / that fool and fuel nothing.
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This is the urgency: Live! and have your blooming in the noise of the whirlwind.
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Life for my child is simple, and is good.
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Art is a refining and evocative translation of the materials of the world.
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Each body has its art.
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Very early in life I became fascinated with the wonders language can achieve. And I began playing with words.
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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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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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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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