Great Throughts Treasury

This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.

Gwendolyn Elizabeth Brooks

American Pulitzer Prize-winning Poet, Novelist

"Exhaust the little moment. Soon it dies. And be it gash or gold it will not come again in this identical disguise."

"Poetry is life distilled. "

"We are each other's magnitude and bond. "

"Art hurts. Art urges voyages - and it is easier to stay at home. "