Live not for Battles Won. Live not for The-End-of-the-Song. Live in the along.
GWENDOLYN BROOKSGoodness begins simply with the fact of life itself.
More Gwendolyn Brooks Quotes
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It is brave to be involved. To be not fearful to be unresolved.
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I swear to keep the dead upon my mind, / Disdain for all time to be overglad.
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I am a writer perhaps because I am not a talker. It has always been hard for me to say exactly what I mean in speech But if I have written a clumsiness, I may erase it.
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I think it must be lonely to be God. Nobody loves a master. No.
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It is brave to be involved.
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Life must be aromatic. There must be scent, somehow there must be some.
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Be yourself. Don’t imitate other poets. You are as important as they are.
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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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Abortions will not let you forget. You remember the children you got that you did not get.
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With melted opals for my milk, Pearl-leaf for my cracker.
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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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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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We don’t ask a flower any special reason for its existence. We just look at it and are able to accept it as being something different from ourselves.
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What, what am I to do with all of this life?
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Art hurts. Art urges voyages – and it is easier to stay at home.
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