Gwendolyn Brooks Middle

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

    “We say ourselves fortunate to be driving by today.
    That we may look at them, in their gardens where
    The summer ripeness rots. But not raggedly.
    Even the leaves fall down in lovelier patterns here.”
    —Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917)

    “You’re not big enough to do this to Rocco! I’ll kill you. You’ll never bring me in! Never!”
    —Richard Brooks (1912–1992)

    “So here I am, in the middle way, having had twenty years—
    Twenty years largely wasted, the years of l’entre deux guerres—
    Trying to learn to use words, and every attempt
    Is a wholly new start, and a different kind of failure....”
    —T.S. (Thomas Stearns)