Gwendolyn Brooks Men Quotations

When you love a man, he becomes more than a body. His physical limbs expand, and his outline recedes, vanishes. He is rich and sweet and right. He is part of the world, the atmosphere, the blue sky and the blue water.

No man can give me any word but Wait ...

There can be no whiter whiteness than this one: An insurance man's shirt on its morning run.

... sometimes you have to deal / Devilishly with drowning men in order to swim them to shore.

Words can do wonderful things. They pound, purr. They can urge, they can wheedle, whip, whine. They can sing, sass, singe. They can churn, check, channelize. They can be a "Hup two three four." They can forge a fiery army of a hundred languid men.