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Surely--But I am very off from that.From surely. From indeed. From the decent arrowthat was my clean naivete and my faith.This morning, men deliver wounds and death.They will deliver death and wounds tomorrow.And I doubt all. You. Or a violet.

Gwendolyn Brooks
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Surely--But I am very off from that.From surely. From indeed. From the decent arrowthat was my clean naivete and my faith.This morning, men deliver wounds and death.They will deliver death and wounds tomorrow.And I doubt all. You. Or a violet.

Gwendolyn Brooks, The Essential Gwendolyn Brooks
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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.

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

Gwendolyn Brooks
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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.

Gwendolyn Brooks
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It is brave to be involved.

Gwendolyn Brooks
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Books are meat and medicineand flame and flight and flowersteel, stitch, cloud and clout,and drumbeats on the air.

Gwendolyn Brooks
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I am a writer perhaps because I am not a talker.

Gwendolyn Brooks
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Writing is a delicious agony.

Gwendolyn Brooks
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Poetry is life distilled.

Gwendolyn Brooks
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The thing no one understood about Gwendolyn Reese was that she was three ages at once: thirty chronologically, forty-five intellectually and fifteen experientially.

Marilyn Brant, A Summer In Europe
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