She was learning to love moments. To love moments for themselves.
GWENDOLYN BROOKSPoetry is life distilled.
More Gwendolyn Brooks Quotes
-
-
I swear to keep the dead upon my mind, / Disdain for all time to be overglad.
GWENDOLYN BROOKS -
We are each other’s harvest; we are each other’s business; we are each other’s magnitude and bond.
GWENDOLYN BROOKS -
When I start writing a poem, I don’t think about models or about what anybody else in the world has done.
GWENDOLYN BROOKS -
Do not desire to fit in. Desire to oblige yourselves to lead.
GWENDOLYN BROOKS -
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?
GWENDOLYN BROOKS -
Very early in life I became fascinated with the wonders language can achieve. And I began playing with words.
GWENDOLYN BROOKS -
Be yourself. Don’t imitate other poets. You are as important as they are.
GWENDOLYN BROOKS -
No man can give me any word but Wait.
GWENDOLYN BROOKS -
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.
GWENDOLYN BROOKS -
Exhaust the little moment soon it dies.
GWENDOLYN BROOKS -
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.
GWENDOLYN BROOKS -
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.
GWENDOLYN BROOKS -
I think there are things for all of us to do as long as we’re here and we’re healthy.
GWENDOLYN BROOKS -
Even if you are not ready for day it cannot always be night.
GWENDOLYN BROOKS -
Art hurts. Art urges voyages – and it is easier to stay at home.
GWENDOLYN BROOKS