What did Gwendolyn Brooks mean by: … sometimes you have to deal / Devilishly with drowning men in order to swim them to shore. - Gwendolyn Brooks Copy
+ Be yourself. Don’t imitate other poets. You are as important as they are. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, Gwendolyn Brooks, Being Yourself, Important, Poet, 0 - Gwendolyn Brooks
+ People are so in need, in need of help. People want so much that they do not know. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, Gwendolyn Brooks, 0 - Gwendolyn Brooks
+ It is brave to be involved. To be not fearful to be unresolved. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, Gwendolyn Brooks, Brave, Courage, Diversity, 0 - Gwendolyn Brooks
+ What shall I give my children? who are poor, / Who are adjudged the leastwise of the land… Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, Gwendolyn Brooks, Children, Land, 0 - Gwendolyn Brooks
+ I shall create! If not a note, a hole./If not an overture, a desecration. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, Gwendolyn Brooks, Holes, Notes, 0 - Gwendolyn Brooks
+ Art hurts. Art urges voyages – and it is easier to stay at home. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, Gwendolyn Brooks, Art, Home, Hurt, 0 - Gwendolyn Brooks
+ I know that the Black emphasis must be not against white but FOR Black. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, Gwendolyn Brooks, Black, Racism, 0 - Gwendolyn Brooks
+ at a certain moment in social proceedings, I am on FIRE to leave: I have a leaving-FIT. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, Gwendolyn Brooks, Fire, Leaving, Moments, 0 - Gwendolyn Brooks
I drank to drown my sorrows, but the damned things learned how to swim. - Frida Kahlo Painter · Mexico
So this is how you swim inward. So this is how you flow outwards. So this is how you pray. - Mary Oliver Poet · USA
I read the way a person might swim, to save his or her life. I wrote that way too. - Mary Oliver Poet · USA
It’s the Olympics. If you can’t get up to swim early in the morning, don’t go. - Michael Phelps Swimmer · USA
As you swim the river of live, do the breast stroke. It helps to clear the turds from your path. - George Carlin Comedian · USA
On learning to swim: I’m too big to have some woman hold my stomach and say ‘Now kick your feet.’ - Will Smith Actor · USA
