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Poetry is life distilled. - Gwendolyn Brooks

Poetry is life distilled. – 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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Education
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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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Gwendolyn Brooks
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Conventional wisdom notwithstanding, there is no reason either in football or in poetry why the two should not meet in a mans life if he has the weight and cares about the words. – Archibald MacLeish

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Poetry

Poetry involves the mysteries of the irrational perceived through rational words. – Vladimir Nabokov

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Poetry

The novel is born of disillusionment the poem, of despair. – Jose Bergamin

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Poetry

If it is an imperfect word, no external circumstance can heighten its value as poetry. – John Drinkwater

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Poetry

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My mother killed herself when I was 12. I wont complete that relationship. But I can try to understand her. – Jane Fonda

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The greatest destroyer of peace is abortion because if a mother can kill her own child, what is left for me to kill you and you to kill me? There is nothing between. – Mother Teresa

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