Famous quotes containing the words wear, brooks and/or brothers:
“The women cry,
Come, my fox,
heal me.
I am chalk white
with middle age
so wear me threadbare....”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)
“The lariat lynch-wish I deplored./The loveliest lynchee was our Lord.”
—Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917)
“Best masters for the young writer and speaker are the fault- finding brothers and sisters at home who will not spare him, but will pick and cavil, and tell the odious truth.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)