Poetry is life distilled.
GWENDOLYN BROOKSArt is a refining and evocative translation of the materials of the world.
More Gwendolyn Brooks Quotes
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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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Very early in life I became fascinated with the wonders language can achieve. And I began playing with words.
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Already I am no longer looked at with lechery or love.
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What I’m fighting for now in my work… for an expression relevant to all manner of blacks, poems I could take into a tavern, into the street, into the halls of a housing project.
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I think it must be lonely to be God. Nobody loves a master. No.
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I am a writer perhaps because I am not a talker.
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The music is in minors.
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Writing is a delicious agony.
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Abortions will not let you forget. You remember the children you got that you did not get.
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No man can give me any word but Wait.
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With melted opals for my milk, Pearl-leaf for my cracker.
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Beware the easy griefs / that fool and fuel nothing.
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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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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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I think there are things for all of us to do as long as we’re here and we’re healthy.
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