Gwendolyn Brooks Middle

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    “Think of sweet and chocolate,
    Left to folly or to fate,
    Whom the higher gods forgot,
    Whom the lower gods berate;
    Physical and underfed
    Fancying on the featherbed ...”
    —Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917)

    “In the breath
    Of the holocaust he
    Is helmsman, hatchet, headlight.”
    —Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917)

    “And indeed there will be time
    To wonder, “Do I dare?” and, “Do I dare?”
    Time to turn back and descend the stair,
    With a bald spot in the middle of my hair ...
    Do I dare
    Disturb the universe?”
    —T.S. (Thomas Stearns)