The poetry is myself.
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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To be in love Is to touch things with a lighter hand. In yourself you stretch, you are well.
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Poetry is life distilled.
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It is brave to be involved.
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Reading is important – read between the lines. Don’t swallow everything.
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Even if you are not ready for day it cannot always be night.
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One reason cats are happier than people is that they have no newspapers.
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Books are meat and medicine and flame and flight and flower steel, stitch, cloud and clout, and drumbeats on the air.
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I am interested in telling my particular truth as I have seen it.
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Art hurts. Art urges voyages – and it is easier to stay at home.
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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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Goodness begins simply with the fact of life itself.
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Life for my child is simple, and is good.
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I think it must be lonely to be God. Nobody loves a master. No.
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Exhaust the little moment soon it dies.
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Live not for Battles Won. Live not for The-End-of-the-Song. Live in the along.
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