Gwendolyn Brooks: Quotes about the world

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“You don’t get all your questions answered in this world.”

"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.

“When I start writing a poem, I don't think about models or about what anybody else in the world has done.”

"An Interview with Gwendolyn Brooks", Contemporary Literature 11:1 (Winter 1970)