Elwyn Brooks

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    In middle life, the human back is spoiling for a technical knockout and will use the flimsiest excuse, even a sneeze, to fall apart.
    —E.B. (Elwyn 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)