I think it must be lonely to be God. Nobody loves a master. No.
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.
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Already I am no longer looked at with lechery or love.
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It is brave to be involved. To be not fearful to be unresolved.
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Life for my child is simple, and is good.
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With melted opals for my milk, Pearl-leaf for my cracker.
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The music is in minors.
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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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Sometimes you have to deal / Devilishly with drowning men in order to swim them to shore.
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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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Exhaust the little moment soon it dies.
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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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She was learning to love moments. To love moments for themselves.
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I swear to keep the dead upon my mind, / Disdain for all time to be overglad.
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This is the urgency: Live! and have your blooming in the noise of the whirlwind.
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Art is a refining and evocative translation of the materials of the world.
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It is brave to be involved.
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