Brooks

Famous quotes containing the word brooks:

“Oh open, apostolic height!
And tell my humbug how to start
Bird balance, bleach: make miniature
Valhalla of my heart.”
—Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917)

“Whether to dry
In humming pallor or to leap and die.”
—Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917)

“I swear to keep the dead upon my mind,/Disdain for all time to be overglad./Among spring flowers, under summer trees./By chilling autumn waters, in the frosts/Of supercilious winter—all my days/I’ll have as mentors those reproving ghosts.”
—Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917)