Art hurts. Art urges voyages - and it is easier to stay at home.
– Gwendolyn Brooks
Be careful what you swallow. Chew!
– Gwendolyn Brooks
We are each other's magnitude and bond.
– Gwendolyn Brooks
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
Each body has its art...
– Gwendolyn Brooks
To be in love Is to touch with a lighter hand. In yourself you stretch, you are well.
– Gwendolyn Brooks
Poetry is life distilled.
– Gwendolyn Brooks
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.