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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“One wants a Teller in a time like this.”
—Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917)
“Children, confine your lights in jellied rules;
Resemble graves; be metaphysical mules;
Learn Lord will not distort nor leave the fray.”
—Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917)
“‘... With melted opals for my milk,
Pearl-leaf for my cracker.’”
—Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917)
“‘My mother is jelly-hearted and she has a brain of jelly:
Sweet, quiver-soft, irrelevant. Not essential.
Only a habit would cry if she should die....’”
—Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917)
“Echoes are dull and the body accepts no touch
Except its pain. Mind is a little isle.”
—Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917)