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Gwendolyn Brooks Quotes: 8

  • 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.

  • Art hurts. Art urges voyages - and it is easier to stay at home.

  • Live not for Battles Won.Live not for The-End-of-the-Song. Live in the along.

    Report from Part One

  • Writing is a delicious agony.

  • I am a writer perhaps because I am not a talker.

  • Poetry is life distilled.

  • Exhaust the little moment. Soon it dies.And be it gash or gold it will not comeAgain in this identical disguise.

    Annie Allen

  • We real cool. We Left school. We Lurk late. We Strike straight. We Sing sin. We Thin gin. We Jazz June. We Die soon.

    Selected Poems