Quotes from Winnie — Gwendolyn Brooks
1917–2000 United States
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5 quotes
You don’t get all your questions answered in this world.
Winnie (1988)
Wherever life can grow, it will.
It will sprout out,
and do the best it can.
Winnie (1988)
My Poem is life, and not finished.
Winnie (1988)
I pass you my Poem! — to tell you
we are all vulnerable —
the midget, the Mighty,
the richest, the poor.
Men, women, children, and trees.
I am vulnerable.
Winnie (1988)
I pass you my Poem.
A poem doesn’t do everything for you.
You are supposed to go on with your thinking.
You are supposed to enrich
the other person’s poem with your extensions,
your uniquely personal understandings,
thus making the poem serve you.
Winnie (1988)