Brooks

Famous quotes containing the word brooks:

“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)

“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)

“And if sun comes
How shall we greet him?
Shall we not dread him,
Shall we not fear him
After so lengthy a
Session with shade?”
—Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917)