Books are meat and medicine and flame and flight and flower steel, stitch, cloud and clout, and drumbeats on the air. (Gwendolyn Brooks)

Books are meat and medicine and flame and flight and flower steel, stitch, cloud and clout, and drumbeats on the air.

Gwendolyn Brooks

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