Brooks

Famous quotes containing the word brooks:

“He wore like a jewel a lemon-hued lynx
With sand-waves loving her brow.”
—Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917)

“The trouble with grown-ups was that under the magnificent shell of adulthood, just under,
Waited the baby full of tantrums.”
—Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917)

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