Gwendolyn Brooks

Live not for Battles Won. Live not for The-End-of-the-Song. Live in the along. ↗

— Gwendolyn Brooks

#living #poetry #end

We are each other's harvest; we are each other's business; we are each other's magnitude and bond. ↗

— Gwendolyn Brooks

#understanding #unity #business

Poetry is life distilled. ↗

— Gwendolyn Brooks

#life #poetry

Books are meat and medicine and flame and flight and flower steel, stitch, cloud and clout, and drumbeats on the air. ↗

— Gwendolyn Brooks

#medicine

What, what am I to do with all of this life? ↗

— Gwendolyn Brooks

#life

I am a writer perhaps because I am not a talker. ↗

— Gwendolyn Brooks

#because #i #i am #perhaps #talker

I felt that I had to write. Even if I had never been published, I knew that I would go on writing, enjoying it and experiencing the challenge. ↗

— Gwendolyn Brooks

#challenge #enjoying #even #experiencing #felt

I've always thought of myself as a reporter. ↗

— Gwendolyn Brooks

#i #myself #reporter #thought

Look at what's happening in this world. Every day there's something exciting or disturbing to write about. With all that's going on, how could I stop? ↗

— Gwendolyn Brooks

#could #day #disturbing #every #every day

First fight. Then fiddle. ↗

— Gwendolyn Brooks

#fight #first #then