Famous quotes containing the words elwyn brooks and/or brooks:
“A man who publishes his letters becomes a nudist—nothing shields him from the world’s gaze except his bare skin. A writer, writing away, can always fix himself up to make himself more presentable, but a man who has written a letter is stuck with it for all time.”
—E.B. (Elwyn Brooks)
“There they are.
Thirty at the corner.
Black raw, ready.
Sores in the city
that do not want to heal.”
—Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917)