Brooks

Famous quotes containing the word brooks:

“O come to us, abide with us,
Our Lord, Immanuel.”
—Phillips Brooks (1835–1893)

“You could not hate the cannibal they wrote
Of, with the nostril bone-thrust, who could dote
On boiled or roasted fellow thigh and throat.”
—Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917)

“Oh when to apprize
Is to mesmerize,
To see fall down, the Column of Gold,
Into the commonest ash.”
—Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917)