Countee Cullen

Poet

1903-05-30

Books by Countee Cullen

The United States in Literature [with three long stories] -- Seventh Edition
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Prentice Hall Literature--Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes--The American Experience
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Prentice Hall Literature -- Platinum
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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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Your love to me was like an unread book.
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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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Whatever lives is granted breath But by the grace and sufferance of Death.
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The loss of love is a terrible thing; They lie who say that death is worse.
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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.
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