Gwendolyn Brooks Middle

Famous quotes containing the words gwendolyn brooks, brooks and/or middle:

    “Pygmies expand in cold impossible air,
    Cry fie on giantshine, poor glory which
    Pounds breast-bone punily, screeches, and has
    Reached no Alps: or, knows no Alps to reach.”
    —Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917)

    “Abortions will not let you forget.
    You remember the children you got that you did not get,”
    —Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917)

    “Complete courage and absolute cowardice are extremes that very few men fall into. The vast middle space contains all the intermediate kinds and degrees of courage; and these differ as much from one another as men’s faces or their humors do.”
    —François, Duc De La Rochefoucauld (1613–1680)