More from Gwendolyn Brooks

  1. Art is a refining and evocative translation of the materials of the world.
  2. I am a writer perhaps because I am not a talker.
  3. As you get older, you find that often the wheat, disentangling itself from the chaff, comes out to meet you.
  4. To be in love Is to touch with a lighter hand. In yourself you stretch, you are well.
  5. 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 in…
  6. He is not there but You know you are tasting together The winter, or a light spring weather. His hand to take your hand is overmuch. Too mu…
  7. When I start writing a poem, I don't think about models or about what anybody else in the world has done.
  8. I shall not sing a May song. A May song should be gay. I'll wait until November And sing a song of gray.

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