Brooks

Famous quotes containing the word brooks:

“Shut your rhetorics in a box;
Pack compunction and go home.
Skeleton, settle, down in bed.”
—Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917)

“If Thou be more than hate or atmosphere
Step forth in splendor, mortify our wolves.
Or we assume a sovereignty ourselves.”
—Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917)

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