Poetry Quote by Gwendolyn Brooks — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“Surely--But I am very off from that.”

“Exhaust the little moment. Soon it dies.”

“We real cool. We”

“Live not for Battles Won.”

“Poetry is life distilled.”

“We may kill each other someday.”

“A JEWELRY STORE NAMED INDIA”

“And when we tell ourselves we have reached the paroxysm of horror, blood and flouted laws of poetry that consecrates revolt, we obliged to advance still further into an endless vertigo.”

“There is that poem. Scott Holland, I think. How does it go? ‘I have only slipped away into the next room’…or something. Yes. ‘I have only slipped away into the next room. I am I and you are you. Whatever we were to each other, that we are still.”

“From her thighs, she gives you life”

“And each in the cell of himself is almost convinced of his freedom.”