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Writing is a delicious agony....

Writing is a delicious agony.

Gwendolyn Brooks 96 quotes

Truth-tellers are not always p...

Truth-tellers are not always palatable. There is a preference for candy bars.

Gwendolyn Brooks 96 quotes

Reading is important - read be...

Reading is important - read between the lines. Don't swallow everything.

Gwendolyn Brooks 96 quotes

To be in love Is to touch thin...

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

Gwendolyn Brooks 96 quotes

Already I am no longer looked ...

Already I am no longer looked at with lechery or love.

Gwendolyn Brooks 96 quotes

And if sun comes / How shall w...

And if sun comes / How shall we greet him? / Shall we not dread him, / Shall we not fear him / After so lengthy a / Session with shade?

Gwendolyn Brooks 96 quotes

I know that the Black emphasis...

I know that the Black emphasis must be not against white but FOR Black.

Gwendolyn Brooks 96 quotes

People like definite decisions...

People like definite decisions, / Tidy answers, all the little ravelings / Snipped off, the lint removed, they / Hop happily among their roughs / Calling what they can't clutch insanity / Or saintliness.

Gwendolyn Brooks 96 quotes

beware the easy griefs / that ...

beware the easy griefs / that fool and fuel nothing.

Gwendolyn Brooks 96 quotes

I swear to keep the dead upon ...

I swear to keep the dead upon my mind, / Disdain for all time to be overglad.

Gwendolyn Brooks 96 quotes

I don't want people running ar...

I don't want people running around saying Gwen Brooks's work is intellectual. That makes people think instantly about obscurity. It shouldn't have to mean that, but it often seems to.

Gwendolyn Brooks 96 quotes

My last defense / Is the prese...

My last defense / Is the present tense.

Gwendolyn Brooks 96 quotes

Exhaust the little moment / So...

Exhaust the little moment / Soon it dies.

Gwendolyn Brooks 96 quotes

I am an ordinary human being w...

I am an ordinary human being who is impelled to write poetry. ... I still do feel that a poet has a duty to words, and that words can do wonderful things, and it's too bad to just let them lie there without doing anything with and for them.

Gwendolyn Brooks 96 quotes

I tell poets that when a line ...

I tell poets that when a line just floats into your head, don't pay attention 'cause it probably has floated into somebody else's head.

Gwendolyn Brooks 96 quotes

What shall I give my children?...

What shall I give my children? who are poor, / Who are adjudged the leastwise of the land ...

Gwendolyn Brooks 96 quotes

When white and black meet toda...

When white and black meet today, sometimes there is a ready understanding that there has been an encounter between two human beings. But often there is only, or chiefly, an awareness that Two Colors are in the room.

Gwendolyn Brooks 96 quotes

The civil rights situation is ...

The civil rights situation is like a pregnancy. It will get worse, I believe, before it gets better. What the usual pregnancy comes to is a decent baby. That is what we all hope will be the end product of this stress. It is customary, at the end of a pregnancy, to have for your pains a decent baby.

Gwendolyn Brooks 96 quotes

It frightens me to realize tha...

It frightens me to realize that, if I had died before the age of fifty, I would have died a 'Negro' fraction ...

Gwendolyn Brooks 96 quotes

at a certain moment in social ...

at a certain moment in social proceedings, I am on FIRE to leave: I have a leaving-FIT.

Gwendolyn Brooks 96 quotes

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Кира Найтли на страницах журнала к выходу фильма «Пиджак», 2005. Следы динозавра, раскопанные в русле реки Палакси. Техас. США. 1952г. Самая большая женщина рядом с самым маленьким мужчиной, 1922 год....