When I start writing a poem, I don’t think about models or about what anybody else in the world has done.
GWENDOLYN BROOKSEach body has its art.
More Gwendolyn Brooks Quotes
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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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Writing is a delicious agony.
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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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I felt that I had to write. Even if I had never been published, I knew that I would go on writing, enjoying it and experiencing the challenge.
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It frightens me to realize that, if I had died before the age of fifty, I would have died a ‘Negro’ fraction.
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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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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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Life must be aromatic. There must be scent, somehow there must be some.
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She was learning to love moments. To love moments for themselves.
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I am a writer perhaps because I am not a talker.
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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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Sometimes you have to deal / Devilishly with drowning men in order to swim them to shore.
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There are no magics or elves or timely godmothers to guide us. We are lost, must wizard a track through our own screaming weed.
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I think it must be lonely to be God. Nobody loves a master. No.
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With melted opals for my milk, Pearl-leaf for my cracker.
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