Famous quotes containing the words elwyn brooks and/or brooks:
“In a sense the world dies every time a writer dies, because, if he is any good, he has been a wet nurse to humanity during his entire existence and has held earth close around him, like the little obstetrical toad that goes about with a cluster of eggs attached to his legs.”
—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)