Brooks

Famous quotes containing the word brooks:

“Measured by any standard known to science—by horse-power, calories, volts, mass in any shape,—the tension and vibration and volume and so-called progression of society were full a thousand times greater in 1900 than in 1800;Mthe force had doubled ten times over, and the speed, when measured by electrical standards as in telegraphy, approached infinity, and had annihilated both space and time. No law of material movement applied to it.”
—Henry Brooks Adams (1838–1918)

“There is spiritual laughter
Too hushed to be gay, too high: the happiness
Of angels.”
—Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917)

“The lariat lynch-wish I deplored./The loveliest lynchee was our Lord.”
—Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917)