More From Gwendolyn Brooks
- "Art hurts. Art urges voyages – and it is easier to stay at home."
- "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."
- "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."
More In Poetry
- "Well I guess the plan was to write poetry and publish books and make a living from writing poetry. That was a pretty ambitious plan I guess."― Robert Adamson
- "I wish you would read a little poetry sometimes. Your ignorance cramps my conversation."― Anthony Hope
- "Those who say we should dismantle the role of Poet Laureate altogether, the trick they miss is that being called this thing, with the weight of tradition behind it, and with the association of the Royal family, does allow you to have conversations and to open doors, and wallets, for the good of poetry in a way that nothing else would allow."― Andrew Motion