Famous quotes containing the words brooks and/or directed:
“Bright lameness from my beautiful disease,
You have your destiny to chip and eat.”
—Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917)
“Apart from letters, it is the vulgar custom of the moment to deride the thinkers of the Victorian and Edwardian eras; yet there has not been, in all history, another age ... when so much sheer mental energy was directed toward creating a fairer social order.”
—Ellen Glasgow (1873–1945)