Gwendolyn Brooks Middle

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

    I am not like that. I pay rent, am addled
    By illegible landlords, run, if robbers call.
    Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917)

    many an eye that all its age had drawn its
    Beam from a Book ...
    —Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917)

    Wives are young men’s mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men’s nurses.
    Francis Bacon (1561–1626)