I am an ordinary human being who is impelled to write poetry.... I still do feel that a poet has a duty to words, and that words can do wonderful things, and it's too bad to just let them lie there without doing anything with and for them.


Report From Part One: An Autobiography (1972)

Gwendolyn Brooks Quotes

I am an ordinary human being who is impelled to write poetry.... I still do feel that a poet has a duty to words, and that words can do wonderful...

I am an ordinary human being who is impelled to write poetry.... I still do feel that a poet has a duty to words, and that words can do wonderful...

I am an ordinary human being who is impelled to write poetry.... I still do feel that a poet has a duty to words, and that words can do wonderful...

I am an ordinary human being who is impelled to write poetry.... I still do feel that a poet has a duty to words, and that words can do wonderful...