I swear to keep the dead upon my mind, / Disdain for all time to be overglad.
GWENDOLYN BROOKSExhaust the little moment soon it dies.
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Be yourself. Don’t imitate other poets. You are as important as they are.
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I don’t like the idea of the black race being diluted out of existence. I like the idea of all of us being here.
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No man can give me any word but Wait.
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People are so in need, in need of help. People want so much that they do not know.
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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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Live not for Battles Won. Live not for The-End-of-the-Song. Live in the along.
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I believe we should all know each other, we human carriers of so many pleasurable differences. To not know is to doubt, to shrink from, sidestep or destroy.
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Books are meat and medicine and flame and flight and flower steel, stitch, cloud and clout, and drumbeats on the air.
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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 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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Writing is a delicious agony.
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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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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 like the concentration, the crush; I like working with language, as others like working with clay, or notes.
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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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We are each other’s harvest; we are each other’s business; we are each other’s magnitude and bond.
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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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Very early in life I became fascinated with the wonders language can achieve. And I began playing with words.
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Each body has its art.
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Art hurts. Art urges voyages – and it is easier to stay at home.
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I think it must be lonely to be God. Nobody loves a master. No.
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She was learning to love moments. To love moments for themselves.
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Goodness begins simply with the fact of life itself.
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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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One reason cats are happier than people is that they have no newspapers.
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