Live not for Battles Won. Live not for The-End-of-the-Song. Live in the along.
GWENDOLYN BROOKSAs you get older, you find that often the wheat, disentangling itself from the chaff, comes out to meet you.
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The music is in minors.
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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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What, what am I to do with all of this life?
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Goodness begins simply with the fact of life itself.
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It is brave to be involved.
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Exhaust the little moment soon it dies.
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Art hurts. Art urges voyages – and it is easier to stay at home.
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She was learning to love moments. To love moments for themselves.
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Truth-tellers are not always palatable. There is a preference for candy bars.
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As you get older, you find that often the wheat, disentangling itself from the chaff, comes out to meet you.
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The poetry is myself.
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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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I like the concentration, the crush; I like working with language, as others like working with clay, or notes.
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I swear to keep the dead upon my mind, / Disdain for all time to be overglad.
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Beware the easy griefs / that fool and fuel nothing.
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