Brooks

Famous quotes containing the word brooks:

“[The] elderly and timid single gentleman in Paris ... never drove down the Champs Elysees without expecting an accident, and commonly witnessing one; or found himself in the neighborhood of an official without calculating the chances of a bomb. So long as the rates of progress held good, these bombs would double in force and number every ten years.”
—Henry Brooks Adams (1838–1918)

“In the breath
Of the holocaust he
Is helmsman, hatchet, headlight.”
—Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917)

“Run.
People are coming. They must not catch us here
Definitionless in this strict atmosphere.”
—Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917)