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Live not for Battles Won. Live not for The-End-of-the-Song. Live in the along.
Gwendolyn Brooks
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Gwendolyn Brooks
Age: 83 †
Born: 1917
Born: June 7
Died: 2000
Died: December 3
Novelist
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Topeka
Kansas
Gwendolyn Elizabeth Brooks
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With melted opals for my milk, Pearl-leaf for my cracker.
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Exhaust the little moment / Soon it dies.
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I think it must be lonely to be God. Nobody loves a master. No.
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Be yourself. Don't imitate other poets. You are as important as they are.
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Do not desire to fit in. Desire to oblige yourselves to lead.
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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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