Countee Cullen Quotes
Top 29 wise famous quotes and sayings by Countee Cullen
Countee Cullen Famous Quotes & Sayings
Discover top inspirational quotes from Countee Cullen on Wise Famous Quotes.
For we must be one thing or the other, an asset or a liability, the sinew in your wing to help you soar, or the chain to bind you to earth.
All day long and all night through, One thing only must I do: Quench my pride and cool my blood, Lest I perish in the flood.
The key to all strange things is in thy heart ... / My spirit has come home, that sailed the doubtful seas.
There is no secret to success except hard work and getting something indefinable which we call 'the breaks.
Give but a grain of the heart's rich seed, Confine some under cover, And when love goes, bid him God-speed. And find another lover.
What is last year's snow to me,
Last year's anything? The tree
Budding yearly must forget
How its past arose or set
Last year's anything? The tree
Budding yearly must forget
How its past arose or set
Death cut the strings that gave me life,
And handed me to Sorrow,
The only kind of middle wife
My folks could beg or borrow.
And handed me to Sorrow,
The only kind of middle wife
My folks could beg or borrow.
Not for myself I make this prayer, But for this race of mine That stretches forth from shadowed places Dark hands for bread and wine.