Gwendolyn Brooks - Tumblr Posts

yuhanzzzz
2 years ago

If you tasted it, it would first taste bitter,

then briny, then surely burn your tongue.

It is like what we imagine knowledge to be:

dark, salt, clear, moving, utterly free,

drawn from the cold hard mouth

of the world, derived from the rocky breasts

forever, flowing and drawn, and since

our knowledge is historical, flowing, and flown.

- Gwendolyn Brooks

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tangogoes
4 months ago
my dreams, my works, must wait till after hell BY GWENDOLYN BROOKS I hold my honey and I store my bread In little jars and cabinets of my will. I label clearly, and each latch and lid I bid, Be firm till I return from hell. I am very hungry. I am incomplete. And none can tell when I may dine again. No man can give me any word but Wait, The puny light. I keep eyes pointed in; Hoping that, when the devil days of my hurt Drag out to their last dregs and I resume On such legs as are left me, in such heart As I can manage, remember to go home, My taste will not have turned insensitive To honey and bread old purity could love.

my dreams, my works, must wait till after hell by gwendolyn brooks

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forest-fire-witness
4 months ago
You Are Spring.

You are Spring.

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this is so much more comforting to me than a simple dont die when i think 'dont die' i am overwhelmed. it is exhausting to imagine so far into the future but death will wait is calming its saying just for right now its okay you can wait and death will always be there for you i lOVE that mental illness mental health actually mentally ill spilled words spilled ink quotes poetry poem literature dark academia gwendolyn brooks words words words words typography to the young who want to die
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