Gwendolyn Brooks - Maud Martha (1953)

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What she wanted was to donate to the world a good Maud Martha. That was the offering, the bit of art, that could not come from any other. She would polish and hone that.

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Dandelions were what she chiefly saw. Yellow jewels for everyday, studding the patched green dress of her back yard.

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She was learning to love moments. To love moments for themselves.

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She had a tremendous impatience with other people's ideas — unless those happened to be exactly like hers; even then, often as not, she gave a hurried, almost angry, affirmative, and flew on to emphatic illuminations of her own.

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Recipient and benefactor.
It's so good of you.
You're being so good.

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Was, perhaps, the whole life of man a dedication to this search for something to lean upon, and was, to a great degree, his "happiness" or "unhappiness" written up for him by the demands or limitations of what he chose for that work? For work it was. Leaning was work.

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