To be in love Is to touch things with a lighter hand. In yourself you stretch, you are well.
GWENDOLYN BROOKSDo not be afraid of no, Who has so far, so very far to go.
More Gwendolyn Brooks Quotes
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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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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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Exhaust the little moment. Soon it dies. And be it gash or gold it will not come again in this identical guise.
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Art is a refining and evocative translation of the materials of the world.
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Art hurts. Art urges voyages – and it is easier to stay at home.
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Life for my child is simple, and is good.
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This is the urgency: Live! and have your blooming in the noise of the whirlwind.
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I swear to keep the dead upon my mind, / Disdain for all time to be overglad.
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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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The poetry is myself.
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Beware the easy griefs / that fool and fuel nothing.
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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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It is brave to be involved.
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The music is in minors.
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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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