American - Poet | May 30, 1903 - January 9, 1946
So in the dark we hide the heart that bleeds, And wait, and tend our agonizing seeds.
Countee Cullen
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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.
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I have a rendezvous with life.
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I was reared in the conservative atmosphere of a Methodist parsonage.
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Your love to me was like an unread book.
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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.
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