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Poetry is life distilled.

Gwendolyn Brooks

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This is the urgency: Live! and have your blooming in the noise of the whirlwind.
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Live Noise Urgent World Yourself
We are each other’s harvest; we are each other’s business; we are each other’s magnitude and bond.
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Bond Business Each Other Friendship Relationship
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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Blue Body Himself Love Man Rich Right Sweet Water World
I am interested in telling my particular truth as I have seen it.
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Interest Myself See Truth
Truth-tellers are not always palatable. There is a preference for candy bars.
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Chocolate Preference Truth
With melted opals for my milk, Pearl-leaf for my cracker.
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Milk Myself
There can be no whiter whiteness than this one: An insurance man’s shirt on its morning run.
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Insurance Man Oneself White
Beware the easy griefs / that fool and fuel nothing.
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Easy Fools Fuel Grief
Life for my child is simple, and is good.
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Children Goodness Life Simplicity
As you get older, you find that often the wheat, disentangling itself from the chaff, comes out to meet you.
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Food Growth Old Yourself
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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Challenge Enjoyment Experience Feeling Publish Writing
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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Black Identity Minority Worth Yourself
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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Attention Float Head Poet Yourself
People are so in need, in need of help. People want so much that they do not know.
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Help Knowledge Need People
I swear to keep the dead upon my mind, / Disdain for all time to be overglad.
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Death Mindset Myself Remember Time
What, what am I to do with all of this life?
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Life Myself Philosophy Unknown

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