I swear to keep the dead upon my mind, / Disdain for all time to be overglad.
GWENDOLYN BROOKSPoetry is life distilled.
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Truth-tellers are not always palatable. There is a preference for candy bars.
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The forties and fifties were years of high poet-incense; the language-flowers were thickly sweet. Those flowers whined and begged white folks to pick them, to find them lovable. Then the ’60s: Independent fire!
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Poetry is life distilled.
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What, what am I to do with all of this life?
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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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Be yourself. Don’t imitate other poets. You are as important as they are.
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She was learning to love moments. To love moments for themselves.
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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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Even if you are not ready for day it cannot always be night.
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Reading is important – read between the lines. Don’t swallow everything.
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Goodness begins simply with the fact of life itself.
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Already I am no longer looked at with lechery or love.
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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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When you use the term minority or minorities in reference to people, you’re telling them that they’re less than somebody else.
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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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