Art is a refining and evocative translation of the materials of the world.
GWENDOLYN BROOKSPoetry is life distilled.
More Gwendolyn Brooks Quotes
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Do not desire to fit in. Desire to oblige yourselves to lead.
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The poetry is myself.
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It is brave to be involved. To be not fearful to be unresolved.
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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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Sometimes you have to deal / Devilishly with drowning men in order to swim them to shore.
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Life for my child is simple, and is good.
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There can be no whiter whiteness than this one: An insurance man’s shirt on its morning run.
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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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She was learning to love moments. To love moments for themselves.
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Each body has its art.
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The music is in minors.
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It is brave to be involved.
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And if sun comes how shall we greet him? shall we not dread him, shall we not fear him after so lengthy a session with shade?
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No man can give me any word but Wait.
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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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