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.
Gwendolyn BrooksI tell poets that when a line just floats into your head, don't pay attention 'cause it probably has floated into somebody else's head.
Gwendolyn Brooks