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)