Gwendolyn Brooks Quotes on Life
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Exhaust the little moment. Soon it dies. And be it gash or gold it will not come Again in this identical guise.
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Art hurts. Art urges voyages - and it is easier to stay at home.
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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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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.
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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.
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Poetry is life distilled.