People are so in need, in need of help. People want so much that they do not know.
GWENDOLYN BROOKSExhaust the little moment soon it dies.
More Gwendolyn Brooks Quotes
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I am interested in telling my particular truth as I have seen it.
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She was learning to love moments. To love moments for themselves.
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We don’t ask a flower any special reason for its existence. We just look at it and are able to accept it as being something different from ourselves.
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The music is in minors.
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This is the urgency: Live! and have your blooming in the noise of the whirlwind.
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Art is a refining and evocative translation of the materials of the world.
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Writing is a delicious agony.
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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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Sometimes you have to deal / Devilishly with drowning men in order to swim them to shore.
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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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Already I am no longer looked at with lechery or love.
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Art hurts. Art urges voyages – and it is easier to stay at home.
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There can be no whiter whiteness than this one: An insurance man’s shirt on its morning run.
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Do not be afraid of no, Who has so far, so very far to go.
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Life for my child is simple, and is good.
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