Brooks

Famous quotes containing the word brooks:

    “Think of thaumaturgic lass
    Looking in her looking-glass
    At the unembroidered brown....”
    —Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917)

    “She atoned for want of devotion to God, by devotion to man. She had a woman’s natural tendency towards asceticism, self-extinction, self-abnegation.”
    —Henry Brooks Adams (1838–1918)

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