5 Quotes By Gwendolyn Brooks


Art hurts. Art urges voyages - and it is easier to stay at home.
Gwendolyn Brooks on art

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 on education

Art hurts. Art urges voyages - and it is easier to stay at home.
Gwendolyn Brooks on home

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 on love

Poetry is life distilled.
Gwendolyn Brooks on poetry