Edwin Percy Whipple
American writer (1819-1886)
American author (1903-1946)
Countee Cullenwas an American poet, novelist, children’s writer, and playwright, particularly well known during the Harlem Renaissance.
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Countee Cullenwas an American poet, novelist, children’s writer, and playwright, particularly well known during the Harlem Renaissance.
Your love to me was like an unread book.
American author (1903-1946)
I was reared in the conservative atmosphere of a Methodist parsonage.
American author (1903-1946)
So in the dark we hide the heart that bleeds, And wait, and tend our agonizing seeds.
American author (1903-1946)
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.
American author (1903-1946)
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.
American author (1903-1946)
I have a rendezvous with life.
American author (1903-1946)