6 Gwendolyn Brooks Quotes on Life

Gwendolyn Brooks quotes on life

2. Exhaust the little moment. Soon it dies. And be it gash or gold it will not come Again in this identical guise.

4. Art hurts. Art urges voyages - and it is easier to stay at home.

7. As you get older, you find that often the wheat, disentangling itself from the chaff, comes out to meet you.

19. 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.

35. What shall I say, how is the truth to be said? You were born, you had body, you died. It is just that you never giggled or planned or cried.

41. Poetry is life distilled.