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Countee Cullen Quotes - Page 2

All Quotes Giving Heart

Whatever lives is granted breath But by the grace and sufferance of Death.

Whatever lives is granted breath But by the grace and sufferance of Death.

Life And Death, Grace, Life Is

Countee Cullen, Gerald Lyn Early (1991). “My soul's high song: the collected writings of Countee Cullen, voice of the Harlem Renaissance”, Doubleday Books

Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, So I make an idle boast; Jesus of the twice-turned cheek Lamb of God, although I speak With my mouth thus, in my heart Do I play a double part.

Jesus, Father, Heart

Countee Cullen (2013). “Countee Cullen: Collected Poems: (American Poets Project #32)”, p.66, Library of America

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.

Heart, Giving, Lovers

Countee Cullen (2013). “Countee Cullen: Collected Poems: (American Poets Project #32)”, p.179, Library of America

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.

Cutting, Wife, Sorrow

Countee Cullen (2013). “Countee Cullen: Collected Poems: (American Poets Project #32)”, p.51, Library of America

Africa? A book one thumbs Listlessly, till slumber comes.

Book, Thumbs, Slumber

Countee Cullen (2013). “Countee Cullen: Collected Poems: (American Poets Project #32)”, p.64, Library of America

Quaint, outlandish heathen gods Black men fashion out of rods

Fashion, Men, Black

Countee Cullen (2013). “Countee Cullen: Collected Poems: (American Poets Project #32)”, p.65, Library of America

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