Gwendolyn Brooks Middle

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

    ““... With melted opals for my milk,
    Pearl-leaf for my cracker.””
    —Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917)

    “With his great white strong cold squares of teeth
    And his little eyes of stone ...”
    —Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917)

    “The women cry,
    Come, my fox,
    heal me.
    I am chalk white
    with middle age
    so wear me threadbare....”
    —Anne Sexton (1928–1974)