About Gwendolyn Brooks
Gwendolyn Elizabeth Brooks (June 7, 1917 – December 3, 2000) was an American poet, author, and teacher. Her work often dealt with the personal celebrations and struggles of ordinary people in her community. She won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry on May 1, 1950 for Annie Allen, making her the...
More quotations from Gwendolyn Brooks
To be in love Is to touch with a lighter hand. In yourself you stretch, you are well.
Art hurts. Art urges voyages—and it is easier to stay at home.
More quotations tagged with “body”
Each individual woman's body demands to be accepted on its own terms.
The mind's first step to self-awareness must be through the body.
The body is an instrument, the mind its function, the witness and reward of its operation.
Of one thing I am certain, the body is not the measure of healing—peace is the measure.
I live in company with a body, a silent companion, exacting and eternal.
History
- Added
-
Wording changed
Previous wording
Each body has its art...