Elwyn Brooks

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    The total collapse of the public opinion polls shows that this country is in good health. A country that developed an airtight system of finding out in advance what was in people’s minds would be uninhabitable.
    —E.B. (Elwyn Brooks)

    There is spiritual laughter
    Too hushed to be gay, too high: the happiness
    Of angels.
    —Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917)