Gwendolyn Brooks Middle

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

    “Hence from scenic bacchanal,
    Preshrunk and droll prodigal!
    Smallness that you had to spend,
    Spent. Wench, whiskey and tail-end
    Of your overseas disease
    Rot and rout you by degrees.”
    —Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917)

    “Think of thaumaturgic lass
    Looking in her looking-glass
    At the unembroidered brown....”
    —Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917)

    “Manhattan. Sometimes from beyond the skyscrapers, across the hundreds of thousands of high walls, the cry of a tugboat finds you in your insomnia in the middle of the night, and you remember that this desert of iron and cement is an island.”
    —Albert Camus (1913–1960)