Gwendolyn Brooks quotes

" To be in love Is to touch with a lighter hand. In yourself you stretch, you are well. " # Love

" Each body has its art... " # Arts and Artists

" 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. " # Education

" Poetry is life distilled. " # Poetry and Poets # Life and Living # Arts and Artists

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

" The good man. He is still enhancer, renouncer. In the time of detachment, in the time of the vivid heather and affectionate evil, in the time of oral grave grave legalities of hate - all real walks our prime registered reproach and seal. Our successful moral. The good man. " # America

" It is brave to be involved To be not fearful to be unresolved. " # Regret

" We real cool. We Left school. We Lurk late. We Strike straight. We Sing sin. We Thin gin. We Jazz June. We Die soon. " # Loneliness

" The WEs in "We Real Cool" are tiny, wispy, weakly argumentative "Kilroy-is-here" announcements. The boys have no accented sense of themselves, yet they are aware of a semi-defined personal importance. Say the "We" softly. " # Arts and Artists

" Art hurts. Art urges voyages — and it is easier to stay at home. " # Arts and Artists