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The World of Gwendolyn Brooks Quotes
The World of Gwendolyn Brooks
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The World of Gwendolyn Brooks Quotes
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“Since a man must bring
To music what his mother spanked him for
When he was two: bits of forgotten hate,
Devotion: whether or not his mattress hurts:
The little dream his father humored: the thing
His sister did for money: what he ate
For breakfast—and for dinner twenty years
Ago last autumn: all his skipped desserts.”
― The World of Gwendolyn Brooks
To music what his mother spanked him for
When he was two: bits of forgotten hate,
Devotion: whether or not his mattress hurts:
The little dream his father humored: the thing
His sister did for money: what he ate
For breakfast—and for dinner twenty years
Ago last autumn: all his skipped desserts.”
― The World of Gwendolyn Brooks
“This is the urgency: Live!
And have your blooming in the noise of the whirlwind.”
― The World of Gwendolyn Brooks
And have your blooming in the noise of the whirlwind.”
― The World of Gwendolyn Brooks
“To say yes is to die
A lot or a little. The dead wear capably their wry
Enameled emblems. They smell.
But that and that they do not altogether yell is all that we know well.
It is brave to be involved,
To be not fearful to be unresolved.
Her new wish was to smile
When answers took no airships, walked a while.”
― The World of Gwendolyn Brooks
A lot or a little. The dead wear capably their wry
Enameled emblems. They smell.
But that and that they do not altogether yell is all that we know well.
It is brave to be involved,
To be not fearful to be unresolved.
Her new wish was to smile
When answers took no airships, walked a while.”
― The World of Gwendolyn Brooks
