Do not be afraid of no, Who has so far, so very far to go.
GWENDOLYN BROOKSPoetry is life distilled.
More Gwendolyn Brooks Quotes
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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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Poetry is life distilled.
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As you get older, you find that often the wheat, disentangling itself from the chaff, comes out to meet you.
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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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Goodness begins simply with the fact of life itself.
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Truth-tellers are not always palatable. There is a preference for candy bars.
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We are each other’s harvest; we are each other’s business; we are each other’s magnitude and bond.
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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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Sometimes you have to deal / Devilishly with drowning men in order to swim them to shore.
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The poetry is myself.
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The music is in minors.
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We real cool. We Left school. We Lurk late. We Strike straight. We Sing sin. We Thin gin. We Jazz June. We Die soon.
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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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When I start writing a poem, I don’t think about models or about what anybody else in the world has done.
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Reading is important – read between the lines. Don’t swallow everything.
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