More From Gwendolyn Brooks
- "Art hurts. Art urges voyages – and it is easier to stay at home."
- "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."
- "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."
More In Poetry
- "Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things."― Matthew Arnold
- "In a broken marriage, it can be challenging and tough to get that work/life balance. I love performing but I also love being a mum, and I hate having to choose between them."― Toni Braxton
- "Narrative art, the novel, from Murasaki to Proust, has produced great works of poetry."― Eugenio Montale