More From Gwendolyn Brooks
- "Poetry is life distilled."
- "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 Art
- "I sit astride life like a bad rider on a horse. I only owe it to the horse’s good nature that I am not thrown off at this very moment."― Ludwig Wittgenstein
- "You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul."― George Bernard Shaw
- "There is no prejudice that the work of art does not finally overcome."― Andre Gide