Art Quote by Gwendolyn Brooks

“To create - a role, a poem, picture, music, a rapture in stone: great. But not for her. What she wanted was to donate…

— Gwendolyn Brooks

“So there was love, and specifically the desire to give to someone who had given so much to me. But too there was a…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

“Having words opened up a world of possibilities for Martha.”

— Susan Meddaugh

“To Martha it seemed that she stood outside life. The world went by her, colourless shapes on a flat pale background. Nothing had solidity…

— Nan Shepherd

“If she would give the world what it wanted, it would deify her.”

— Marjorie Rosen

“I could help her in her shop, Eleanor thought; she loves beautiful things and I would go with her to find them. We could…

— Shirley Jackson

“But for the most part, she was the Maude who Alice would have said she wanted all along. But instead of seeming more reasonable,…

— Carol Anshaw

“There was money enough... but she asked so much of life, in ways so complex and immaterial. He thought of her as walking bare-footed…

— Edith Wharton

“She did not find these riches (of fulfillment). They were a gift from God.”

— Lyle W. Dorsett

“Something wild and foreign issued a cry within her, shattering through the pain in her head, and thoughts of poppies and cages faded away.…

— Sarah J. Maas

“She was all the world’s money, and I would spend it with her, my sharpest friend who changed the tide, my only comfort from…

— Daniel Handler

“She could only hope that in a place filled with so many wonders, it would have still been possible to appreciate something as remarkable…

— Jennifer E. Smith