If you ask a question, you can't stop there. You must keep … - Gwendolyn Brooks

" "
If you ask a question, you
can't stop there.
You must keep going.
You can't stop there: World will
wave; will be
facetious, angry. You can't stop there.
You have to keep on going.

Gwendolyn Brooks

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About Gwendolyn Brooks

Gwendolyn Brooks (7 June 1917 – 3 December 2000) was an American poet. She received the Pulitzer Prize for Literature for her book of poems Annie Allen.

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Alternative Names: Gwendolyn Elizabeth Brooks

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Poetry is life distilled. –

Small Mabel whimpered all night long,
For calling herself the cause.
Her oak-eyed mother did no thing
But change the bloody gauze.

As you get older, you find that often the wheat, disentangling itself from the chaff, comes out to meet you.

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