Countee Cullen quotes

Your love to me was like an unread book. (Countee Cullen)
The truth is... everything counts. Everything. Everything we do and everything we say. Everything helps or hurts; everything adds to or takes away from someone else. View quote
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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. View quote
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I have a rendezvous with life. View quote
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Never love with all your heart, It only ends in aching. View quote
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The loss of love is a terrible thing; They lie who say that death is worse. View quote
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I was reared in the conservative atmosphere of a Methodist parsonage. View quote
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So in the dark we hide the heart that bleeds, And wait, and tend our agonizing seeds. View quote
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There is no secret to success except hard work and getting something indefinable which we call 'the breaks.' In order for a writer to succeed, I suggest three things - read and write - and wait. View quote
Countee Cullen

Countee Cullen

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Occupation: American Poet
Born: May 30, 1903
Died: January 9, 1946
Quotes count: 9

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