Gwendolyn Brooks
Gwendolyn Elizabeth Brooks (June 7, 1917 – December 3, 2000) was an African-American poet. She won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1950 and was appointed Poet Laureate of Illinois in 1968 and Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 1985.
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“‘... With melted opals for my milk,
Pearl-leaf for my cracker.’”
—Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917)
“I think it must be lonely to be God.
Nobody loves a master. No.”
—Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917)
“Hence from scenic bacchanal,
Preshrunk and droll prodigal!
Smallness that you had to spend,
Spent. Wench, whiskey and tail-end
Of your overseas disease
Rot and rout you by degrees.”
—Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917)
“One wants a Teller in a time like this.”
—Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917)
“Oh Squalor! This sick four-story hulk, this fibre
With fissures everywhere!”
—Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917)