Gwendolyn Brooks: Doing

Gwendolyn Brooks was American writer. Explore interesting quotes on doing.
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“A poem doesn’t do everything for you.
You are supposed to go on with your thinking.”

Gwendolyn Brooks

"Song of Winnie"
Winnie (1988)
Context: 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.

Thinking

“Wherever life can grow, it will.
It will sprout out,
and do the best it can.”

Gwendolyn Brooks

"Song of Winnie"
Winnie (1988)
Context: My Poem is life, and not finished.
It shall never be finished.
My Poem is life, and can grow.

Wherever life can grow, it will.
It will sprout out,
and do the best it can.
I give you what I have.
You don’t get all your questions answered in this world.
How many answers shall be found
in the developing world of my Poem?
I don’t know. Nevertheless I put my Poem,
which is my life, into your hands, where it will do the best it can.

Life

“What, what am I to do with all of this life?”

Gwendolyn Brooks book Maud Martha

Source: Maud Martha

Life

“It is a real chill out,
The genuine thing.
I am not deceived, I do not think it is still summer
Because sun stays and birds continue to sing.”

Gwendolyn Brooks

A Sunset of the City

Bird , Thinking , Singing , Sun