Quote by Gwendolyn Brooks
Poetry is life distilled. - Gwendolyn Brooks

Poetry is life distilled. – Gwendolyn Brooks

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Good health is a duty to yourself, to your contemporaries, to your inheritors, to the progress of the world. – Gwendolyn Brooks

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Health
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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. – Gwendolyn Brooks

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Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content. – Alfred de Musset, Le Poète déchu, 1839

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Science is for those who learn, poetry is for those who know. – Joseph Roux

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Poetry

In many cases these verses will seem to the reader like poetry torn up by the roots, with rain and dew and earth still clinging to them, giving a freshness and a fragrance not otherwise to be conveyed. – Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Preface to Poems by Emily Dickinson Edited by Two of

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Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them. – Charles Simic

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In so far as one denies what is, one is possessed by what is not, the compulsions, the fantasies, the terrors that flock to fill the void. – Ursula K. LeGuin

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I dont think that a same-sex marriage is the way God intended it to be. – Joel Osteen

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Call your opinions your creed, and you will change them every week. Make your creed simply and broadly out of the revelation of God, and you will keep it to the end. – Phillips Brooks

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