Reading is important – read between the lines. Don’t swallow everything.
GWENDOLYN BROOKSLife must be aromatic. There must be scent, somehow there must be some.
More Gwendolyn Brooks Quotes
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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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Even if you are not ready for day it cannot always be night.
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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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Life must be aromatic. There must be scent, somehow there must be some.
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When you love a man, he becomes more than a body. His physical limbs expand, and his outline recedes, vanishes. He is rich and sweet and right. He is part of the world, the atmosphere, the blue sky and the blue water.
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Life for my child is simple, and is good.
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Art hurts. Art urges voyages – and it is easier to stay at home.
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Exhaust the little moment. Soon it dies. And be it gash or gold it will not come again in this identical guise.
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Very early in life I became fascinated with the wonders language can achieve. And I began playing with words.
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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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We real cool. We Left school. We Lurk late. We Strike straight. We Sing sin. We Thin gin. We Jazz June. We Die soon.
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Do not desire to fit in. Desire to oblige yourselves to lead.
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Each body has its art.
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I think it must be lonely to be God. Nobody loves a master. No.
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Abortions will not let you forget. You remember the children you got that you did not get.
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