“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

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American writer 1917–2000

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