Happy birthday, Gwendolyn Brooks! Here are some quotes from her writing.
“Remember that ART is refining and evocative translation of the materials of the world!”
“consider the big fists breaking your little bones,
or consider the vague bureaucrats
stumbling, fumbling through Paper.”
“Say to them,
say to the down-keepers,
the sun-slappers,
the self-soilers,
the harmony-hushers,
‘even if you are not ready for day
it cannot always be night.’
You will be right.”
“A poem doesn’t do everything for you.
You are supposed to go on with your thinking.”
“My Poem is life, and not finished.”
“we are each other’s
harvest:
we are each other’s
business:
we are each other’s
magnitude and bond.”
