Gwendolyn Brooks Middle

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    “One wants a Teller in a time like this.”
    —Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917)

    “The scientific mind is atrophied, and suffers under inherited cerebral weakness, when it comes in contact with the eternal woman—Astarte, Isis, Demeter, Aphrodite, and the last and greatest deity of all, the Virgin.”
    —Henry Brooks Adams (1838–1918)

    “I feared these present years,
    The middle twenties,
    When deftness disappears,
    And each event is
    Freighted with a source-encrusting doubt,
    And turned to drought.”
    —Philip Larkin (1922–1986)