Gwendolyn Brooks Middle

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

    “Sweet is it, sweet is it
    To sleep in the coolness
    Of snug unawareness.”
    —Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917)

    “She atoned for want of devotion to God, by devotion to man. She had a woman’s natural tendency towards asceticism, self-extinction, self-abnegation.”
    —Henry Brooks Adams (1838–1918)

    “Of all the barbarous middle ages, that
    Which is most barbarous is the middle age
    Of man! it is—I really scarce know what;
    But when we hover between fool and sage,
    And don’t know justly what we would be at—
    A period something like a printed page,
    Black letter upon foolscap, while our hair
    Grows grizzled, and we are not what we were.”
    —George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)