Sarah

“Say to them,
say to the down-keepers,
the sun-slappers,
the self-soilers,
the harmony-hushers,
"Even if you are not ready for day
it cannot always be night."
You will be right.
For that is the hard home-run.

Live not for battles won.
Live not for the-end-of-the-song.
Live in the along.”
― Gwendolyn Brooks, Selected Poems

“Very early in life I became fascinated with the wonders language can achieve. And I began playing with words.”
― Gwendolyn Brooks

“The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.”
― Gustave Flaubert

“She was learning to love moments. To love moments for themselves. ”
― Gwendolyn Brooks