Live not for Battles Won. Live not for The-End-of-the-Song. Live in the along.
GWENDOLYN BROOKSWhat, what am I to do with all of this life?
More Gwendolyn Brooks Quotes
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Beware the easy griefs / that fool and fuel nothing.
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She was learning to love moments. To love moments for themselves.
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What, what am I to do with all of this life?
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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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Be yourself. Don’t imitate other poets. You are as important as they are.
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I am a writer perhaps because I am not a talker.
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I know that the Black emphasis must be not against white but FOR Black.
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One reason cats are happier than people is that they have no newspapers.
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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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Very early in life I became fascinated with the wonders language can achieve. And I began playing with words.
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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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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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Sometimes you have to deal / Devilishly with drowning men in order to swim them to shore.
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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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People are so in need, in need of help. People want so much that they do not know.
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