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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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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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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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For me, poetry is a situation – a state of being, a way of facing life and facing history. – Tahar Ben Jelloun

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Poetry

For whatever reason, people, including very well-educated people or people otherwise interested in reading, do not read poetry. – Paul Muldoon

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Poetry

You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you. – Joseph Joubert

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Poetry

The arts generally have had to recognize Modernism – how should poetry escape? – John C. Ransom

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Poetry

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