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

Poetry is life distilled. – Gwendolyn Brooks

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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. – Gwendolyn Brooks

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Love
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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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Education
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Other Quotes from
Poetry
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Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose-petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo. – Don Marquis

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Poetry

The moment of change is the only poem. – Adrienne Rich

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Poetry

There are distinct duties of a poet laureate. I plan a reading series at the Library of Congress and advise the librarian. The rest is how I want to promote poetry. – Rita Dove

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Poetry

Compression of poetry is so great I often explode. Out of the house to walk off a poem. – William Corbett, “On Reading: Notes & a Poem,” The Agni Review, No.22 (1985)

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Poetry

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