Books are meat and medicineand flame and flight and flowersteel, stitch, cloud and clout,and drumbeats on the air. - Gwendolyn Brooks
To be in love Is to touch with a lighter hand. In yourself you stretch, you are well. - Gwendolyn Brooks
Each body has its art... - Gwendolyn Brooks
We don't ask a flower any special reason for its existence. We just look at it and are able to accept it as being something different from ourselves. - Gwendolyn Brooks
We are each other's harvest; we are each other's business; we are each other's magnitude and bond. - Gwendolyn Brooks
Poetry is life distilled. - Gwendolyn Brooks
I am a writer perhaps because I am not a talker. - Gwendolyn Brooks
Writing is a delicious agony. - Gwendolyn Brooks