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.
GWENDOLYN BROOKSAs you get older, you find that often the wheat, disentangling itself from the chaff, comes out to meet you.
More Gwendolyn Brooks Quotes
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A 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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Live not for Battles Won. Live not for The-End-of-the-Song. Live in the along.
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I am interested in telling my particular truth as I have seen it.
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Writing is a delicious agony.
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With melted opals for my milk, Pearl-leaf for my cracker.
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Poetry is life distilled.
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Do not be afraid of no, Who has so far, so very far to go.
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Goodness begins simply with the fact of life itself.
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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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It is brave to be involved.
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I am a writer perhaps because I am not a talker. It has always been hard for me to say exactly what I mean in speech But if I have written a clumsiness, I may erase it.
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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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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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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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