Exhaust the little moment. Soon it dies. And be it gash or gold it will not come again in this identical guise.
GWENDOLYN BROOKSEach body has its art.
More Gwendolyn Brooks Quotes
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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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Do not desire to fit in. Desire to oblige yourselves to lead.
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Writing is a delicious agony.
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I am interested in telling my particular truth as I have seen it.
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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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What I’m fighting for now in my work… for an expression relevant to all manner of blacks, poems I could take into a tavern, into the street, into the halls of a housing project.
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Even if you are not ready for day it cannot always be night.
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It is brave to be involved. To be not fearful to be unresolved.
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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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Goodness begins simply with the fact of life itself.
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Each body has its art.
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Art hurts. Art urges voyages – and it is easier to stay at home.
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Reading is important – read between the lines. Don’t swallow everything.
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Truth-tellers are not always palatable. There is a preference for candy bars.
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One reason cats are happier than people is that they have no newspapers.
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