Countee Cullen

I have a rendezvous with life. ↗

— Countee Cullen

#life #rendezvous

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. ↗

— Countee Cullen

#bind #chain #earth #help #liability

I was reared in the conservative atmosphere of a Methodist parsonage. ↗

— Countee Cullen

#conservative #i #methodist #reared

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

— Countee Cullen

#bleeds #dark #heart #hide #our

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

#call #except #getting #hard #hard work

Your love to me was like an unread book. ↗

— Countee Cullen

#like #love #me #our love #unread