Brooks

Famous quotes containing the word brooks:

    Let it be stairways, and a splintery box
    Where you have thrown me, scraped me with your kiss,
    Have honed me, have released me after this
    Cavern kindness smiled away our shocks.
    That is the birthright of our lovely love
    In swaddling clothes.
    —Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917)

    There is spiritual laughter
    Too hushed to be gay, too high: the happiness
    Of angels.
    —Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917)

    Some day the war will end, but, oh, I knew
    When he went walking grandly out that door
    That my sweet love would have to be untrue.
    —Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917)