Gwendolyn Brooks: Quotes about love

Gwendolyn Brooks was American writer. Explore interesting quotes on love.
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“Already I am no longer looked at with lechery or love.”

Gwendolyn Brooks

A Sunset of the City
Context: Already I am no longer looked at with lechery or love.
My daughters and sons have put me away with marbles and dolls,
Are gone from the house.
My husband and lovers are pleasant or somewhat polite
And night is night.

“When you love a man, he becomes more than a body. His physical limbs expand, and his outline recedes, vanishes. He is rich and sweet and right. He is part of the world, the atmosphere, the blue sky and the blue water”

Gwendolyn Brooks

“To be in love
Is to touch with a lighter hand.
In yourself you stretch, you are well.”

Gwendolyn Brooks

"To Be In Love"
Variant: To be in love
Is to touch with a lighter hand.
Source: Selected Poems

“I have heard in the voices of the wind the voices of my dim killed children.
I have contracted. I have eased
My dim dears at the breasts they could never suck.
I have said, Sweets, if I sinned, if I seized
Your luck
And your lives from your unfinished reach,
If I stole your births and your names,
Your straight baby tears and your games,
Your stilted or lovely loves, your tumults, your marriages, aches,
and your deaths,
If I poisoned the beginnings of your breaths,
Believe that even in my deliberateness I was not deliberate.”

Gwendolyn Brooks

The Mother (1945)

“Believe me, I loved you all.
Believe me, I knew you, though faintly, and I loved, I loved you
All.”

Gwendolyn Brooks

The Mother (1945)

“Coherent
Counsel! Good man.
Require of us our terribly excluded blue.
Constrain, repair a ripped, revolted land.
Put hand in hand land over.
Reprove
the abler droughts and manias of the day
and a felicity entreat.
Love.
Complete
your pledges, reinforce your aides, renew
stance, testament.”

Gwendolyn Brooks

The Good Man