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Each body has its art.

Gwendolyn Brooks

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Gwendolyn Brooks
Age: 83 †
Born: 1917
Born: June 7
Died: 2000
Died: December 3
Novelist
Poet
Teacher
Writer
Topeka
Kansas
Gwendolyn Elizabeth Brooks
Healing
Art
Body

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Art is a refining and evocative translation of the materials of the world.
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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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Very early in life I became fascinated with the wonders language can achieve. And I began playing with words.
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The forties and fifties were years of high poet-incense the language-flowers were thickly sweet. Those flowers whined and begged white folks to pick them, to find them lovable. Then the '60s: Independent fire!
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I am an ordinary human being who is impelled to write poetry. ... I still do feel that a poet has a duty to words, and that words can do wonderful things, and it's too bad to just let them lie there without doing anything with and for them.
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My last defense / Is the present tense.
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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.
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Life must be aromatic. There must be scent, somehow there must be some.
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It is brave to be involved
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This is the urgency: Live! and have your blooming in the noise of the whirlwind.
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With melted opals for my milk, Pearl-leaf for my cracker.
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I think it must be lonely to be God. Nobody loves a master. No.
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Poetry is life distilled.
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Do not desire to fit in. Desire to oblige yourselves to lead.
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And if sun comes / How shall we greet him? / Shall we not dread him, / Shall we not fear him / After so lengthy a / Session with shade?
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Reading is important - read between the lines. Don't swallow everything.
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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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The poetry is myself.
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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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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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