Gwendolyn Brooks cytaty
Gwendolyn Brooks
Data urodzenia: 7. Czerwiec 1917
Data zgonu: 3. Grudzień 2000
Natępne imiona: 格温多林·布鲁克斯, قوندولین بروکس, גוונדולין ברוקס, გვენდოლინ ბრუკსი
Gwendolyn Elizabeth Brooks – amerykańska poetka. Odznaczona Narodowym Medalem Sztuki. W 1950 otrzymała Nagrodę Pulitzera w dziedzinie poezji.
Była autorką wierszy, których tematyka obracała się głównie wokół życia czarnoskórych ludzi we współczesnym, cywilizowanym świecie.
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hiszpański komediopisarzCytaty Gwendolyn Brooks
„We are each other's harvest; we are each other's business; we are each other's magnitude and bond.“
— Gwendolyn Brooks
Context: That time
we all heard it,
cool and clear,
cutting across the hot grit of the day.
The major Voice.
The adult Voice
forgoing Rolling River,
forgoing tearful tale of bale and barge
and other symptoms of an old despond.
Warning, in music-words
devout and large,
that we are each other's
harvest:
we are each other's
business:
we are each other's
magnitude and bond.
„Wherever life can grow, it will.
It will sprout out,
and do the best it can.“
— Gwendolyn Brooks
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.
"Song of Winnie"
„That is the Crazy Woman
Who would not sing in May.“
— Gwendolyn Brooks
Context: And all the little people
Will stare at me and say,
"That is the Crazy Woman
Who would not sing in May."
"The Crazy Woman"
„A poem doesn’t do everything for you.
You are supposed to go on with your thinking.“
— Gwendolyn Brooks
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.
"Song of Winnie"
„I pass you my Poem! — to tell you
we are all vulnerable“
— Gwendolyn Brooks
the midget, the Mighty,
the richest, the poor.
Men, women, children, and trees.
I am vulnerable.
"Song of Winnie"
„Our earth is round, and, among other things
That means that you and I can hold completely different
Points of view and both be right.
The difference of our positions will show
Stars in your window I cannot even imagine.“
— Gwendolyn Brooks
Context: Our earth is round, and, among other things
That means that you and I can hold completely different
Points of view and both be right.
The difference of our positions will show
Stars in your window I cannot even imagine.
Your sky may burn with light,
While mine, at the same moment,
Spreads beautiful to darkness.
The above statements have been widely published in the above format as lines of verse attributed to Brooks, usually as a poem titled "Corners on the Curving Sky" — but one website http://web.archive.org/20090809112040/www.geocities.com/juscurious/anon.html indicated that she declared she did not write them. The words actually occur as an introduction to the "Corners on the Curving Sky" section of the book Soulscript (1970) compiled by June Jordan, in which other poems of Brooks were included, and thus is apparently the work of Jordan. It appears simply in paragraph form and reads thus:
„Already I am no longer looked at with lechery or love.“
— Gwendolyn Brooks
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.
„You don’t get all your questions answered in this world.“
— Gwendolyn Brooks
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.
"Song of Winnie"
„Exhaust the little moment.
Soon it dies.
And be it gash or gold it will not come
Again in this identical guise.“
— Gwendolyn Brooks, Annie Allen
"exhaust the little moment" from Annie Allen (1949)
„I am a writer perhaps because I am not a talker.“
— Gwendolyn Brooks
My Soul Looks Back, 'Less I Forget (1995) by Dorothy Winbush Riley
„Poetry is life distilled.“
— Gwendolyn Brooks
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.
"Song of Winnie"
