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Poetry is life distilled.

Gwendolyn Brooks

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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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Achievement Beginning Early Fascinate Language Life Play Wonder Word
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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Health Myself Thinking
I think it must be lonely to be God. Nobody loves a master. No.
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Deep God Lonely Love Master Thinking
Truth-tellers are not always palatable. There is a preference for candy bars.
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Chocolate Preference Truth
What I’m fighting for now in my work… for an expression relevant to all manner of blacks, poems I could take into a tavern, into the street, into the halls of a housing project.
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Black Expression Fight Home Oppression Project Work
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
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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Believe Destroy Difference Doubt Each Other Happiness Human
Be yourself. Don’t imitate other poets. You are as important as they are.
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Be Yourself Imitation Important 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 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
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
Do not desire to fit in. Desire to oblige yourselves to lead.
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Brave Desire Inspirational Leadership
Exhaust the little moment soon it dies.
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Death Moments Time
Reading is important – read between the lines. Don’t swallow everything.
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Education Important Patience Reading Slow
This is the urgency: Live! and have your blooming in the noise of the whirlwind.
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Live Noise Urgent World Yourself
What, what am I to do with all of this life?
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Life Myself Philosophy Unknown

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