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Gwendolyn Brooks quotes

American Poet June 7, 1917 – December 3, 2000

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When you love a man, he becomes more than a body. His physical limbs expand, and his outline recedes, vanishes. He is rich and sweet and right. He is part of the world, the atmosphere, the blue sky and the blue water. Gwendolyn Brooks
Gwendolyn Brooks quote: "She was learning to love moments. To love moments for themselves."
She was learning to love moments. To love moments for themselves. Gwendolyn Brooks
Gwendolyn Brooks quote: "To be in love. Is to touch things with a lighter hand. In..."
To be in love. Is to touch things with a lighter hand. In yourself you stretch, you are well. Gwendolyn Brooks
Gwendolyn Brooks quote: "Very early in life I became fascinated with the wonders..."
Very early in life I became fascinated with the wonders language can achieve. And I began playing with words. Gwendolyn Brooks
Gwendolyn Brooks quote: "Poetry is life distilled."
Poetry is life distilled. Gwendolyn Brooks
Gwendolyn Brooks quote: "What, what am I to do with all of this life?"
What, what am I to do with all of this life? Gwendolyn Brooks
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. Gwendolyn Brooks
Surely--But I am very off from that. From surely. From indeed. From the decent arrowthat was my clean naivete and my faith. This morning, men deliver wounds and death. They will deliver death and wounds tomorrow. And I doubt all. You. Or a violet. Gwendolyn Brooks
Gwendolyn Brooks quote: "Art hurts. Art urges voyages - and it is easier to stay at home."
Art hurts. Art urges voyages - and it is easier to stay at home. Gwendolyn Brooks
She was afraid to suggest to him that to most people, nothing "happens." That most people merely live from day to day until they die. That, after he had been dead a year, doubtless fewer than five people would think of him oftener than once a year. That there might even come a year when no one on earth would think of him at all. Gwendolyn Brooks
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. Gwendolyn Brooks
Gwendolyn Brooks quote: "we real cool. we left school. we lurk late. we strike..."
we real cool. we left school. we lurk late. we strike straight. we sing sin. we thin gin. we jazz june. we die soon. Gwendolyn Brooks
Gwendolyn Brooks quote: "Books are meat and medicineand flame and flight and..."
Books are meat and medicineand flame and flight and flowersteel, stitch, cloud and clout, and drumbeats on the air. Gwendolyn Brooks
Gwendolyn Brooks quote: "Each body has its art..."
Each body has its art... Gwendolyn Brooks
Gwendolyn Brooks quote: "We are each other's harvest; we are each other's business; we..."
We are each other's harvest; we are each other's business; we are each other's magnitude and bond. Gwendolyn Brooks

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