Gwendolyn Brooks
18 quotes
Biography
"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."
"Art hurts. Art urges voyages - and it is easier to stay at home."
"Live not for Battles Won.Live not for The-End-of-the-Song. Live in the along."
"Writing is a delicious agony."
"I am a writer perhaps because I am not a talker."
"Poetry is life distilled."
"Exhaust the little moment. Soon it dies.And be it gash or gold it will not comeAgain in this identical disguise."
"We real cool. We Left school. We Lurk late. We Strike straight. We Sing sin. We Thin gin. We Jazz June. We Die soon."
"When I start writing a poem, I don't think about models or about what anybody else in the world has done."
"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."
"As you get older, you find that often the wheat, disentangling itself from the chaff, comes out to meet you."
"Art is a refining and evocative translation of the materials of the world."
"Be careful what you swallow. Chew!"
"I am interested in telling my particular truth as I have seen it."
"Already you're on Page 8."
"Somebody muffed it?? Somebody wanted to joke."
"Books are meat and medicineand flame and flight and flowersteel, stitch, cloud and clout,and drumbeats on the air."
"It is brave to be involved."