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Reading is important - read between the lines. Don't swallow everything.
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
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Be yourself. Don't imitate other poets. You are as important as they are.
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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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I like the concentration, the crush I like working with language, as others like working with clay, or notes.
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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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With melted opals for my milk, Pearl-leaf for my cracker.
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The poetry is myself.
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