There can be no whiter whiteness than this one: An insurance man’s shirt on its morning run.
GWENDOLYN BROOKSA 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.
More Gwendolyn Brooks Quotes
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It is brave to be involved.
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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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I like the concentration, the crush; I like working with language, as others like working with clay, or notes.
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I tell poets that when a line just floats into your head, don’t pay attention ’cause it probably has floated into somebody else’s head.
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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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Writing is a delicious agony.
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I am a writer perhaps because I am not a talker.
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Even if you are not ready for day it cannot always be night.
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Each body has its art.
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Do not be afraid of no, Who has so far, so very far to go.
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This is the urgency: Live! and have your blooming in the noise of the whirlwind.
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One reason cats are happier than people is that they have no newspapers.
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Poetry is life distilled.
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I am interested in telling my particular truth as I have seen it.
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