Countee Cullen Quotes

Your love to me was like an unread book . . . - Countee Cullen

Yet do I marvel at this curious thing:/ To make a poet black, and bid him sing! - Countee Cullen

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. - Countee Cullen

The play is done, the crowds depart; and see / That twisted tortured thing hung from a tree, / Swart victim of a newer Calvary. - Countee Cullen

The key to all strange things is in thy heart..../ My spirit has come home, that sailed the doubtful seas. - Countee Cullen

So in the dark we hide the heart that bleeds, And wait, and tend our agonizing seeds. - Countee Cullen

My poetry, I think, has become the way of my giving out what music is within me. - Countee Cullen

If I am going to be a poet at all, I am going to be POET and not NEGRO POET. - Countee Cullen

I was reared in the conservative atmosphere of a Methodist parsonage. - Countee Cullen

I have a rendezvous with life. - Countee Cullen

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