Brooks Hall

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

“In football they measure forty-yard sprints. Nobody runs forty yards in basketball. Maybe you run the ninety-four feet of the court; then you stop, not on a dime, but on Miss Liberty’s torch. In football you run over somebody’s face.”
—Donald Hall (b. 1928)