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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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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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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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We all write poems it is simply that poets are the ones who write in words. – John Fowles

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Poetry

Theres one of my new poems actually – is a good example of where my poetry has ended up. My earlier river poetry was more like a cross between Shelley and Dylan Thomas. – Robert Adamson

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Poetry

No art form points like poetry to this originality of language as to its essential and abiding concern. – Thomas Harrison

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Poetry

If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy. – Muhammad Iqbal

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I would fain coin wisdom,—mould it, I mean, into maxims, proverbs, sentences, that can easily be retained and transmitted. Would that I could denounce and banish from the language of men—as base money—the words by which they cheat and are cheated! – Joseph Joubert, translated from French

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