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The poetry is myself.

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
Poetry

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My last defense / Is the present tense.
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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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Say to them, say to the down-keepers, the sun-slappers, the self-soilers, the harmony-hushers, Even if you are not ready for day it cannot always be night. You will be right. For that is the hard home-run. Live not for battles won. Live not for the-end-of-the-song. Live in the along.
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It is brave to be involved
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Do not be afraid of no, Who has so far, so very far to go.
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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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Art is a refining and evocative translation of the materials of the world.
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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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Truth-tellers are not always palatable. There is a preference for candy bars.
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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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I've always thought of myself as a reporter. When people ask why I don't stop writing, I say, `Look at what's happening in this world. Every day there's something exciting or disturbing to write about.’ With all that's going on, how could I stop?
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at a certain moment in social proceedings, I am on FIRE to leave: I have a leaving-FIT.
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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.
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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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Each body has its art.
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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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The music is in minors.
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Art hurts. Art urges voyages - and it is easier to stay at home.
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With melted opals for my milk, Pearl-leaf for my cracker.
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Poetry is life distilled.
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