Countee Cullen Citas

• La verdad es que... todo cuenta. Todo. Todo lo que hacemos y todo lo que decimos. Todo ayuda o perjudica; todo suma o resta a otra persona.

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  Hurt, Truth, Poetry

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• There is no secret to success except hard work and getting something indefinable which we call 'the breaks.

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  Hard Work, Secret, Break

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• If I am going to be a poet at all, I am going to be POET and not NEGRO POET.

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  Poet, Ifs

  Countee Cullen (2013). “Countee Cullen: Collected Poems: (American Poets Project #32)”, p.31, Library of America

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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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  Wings, Ties, Earth

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

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• My poetry has become the way of my giving out what music is within me.

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  Giving, Poetry, Way

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

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• We shall not always plant while others reap

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  Plant, Reap

  Countee Cullen (2013). “Countee Cullen: Collected Poems: (American Poets Project #32)”, p.93, Library of America

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• We were not made to eternally weep.

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  Hecho

  Countee Cullen, “From The Dark Tower”

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• The key to all strange things is in thy heart..../ My spirit has come home, that sailed the doubtful seas.

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  Home, Heart, Keys

  Countee Cullen, “The Shroud Of Color”

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• I have a rendezvous with life.

  Countee Cullen

  Cita

  Countee Cullen (2013). “Countee Cullen: Collected Poems: (American Poets Project #32)”, p.22, Library of America

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• ¿Qué es África para mí: ¿Sol de cobre o mar escarlata, estrella de la selva o sendero de la selva, hombres fuertes y bronceados o negras regias Mujeres de cuyos lomos broté cuando cantaban los pájaros del Edén?

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  Strong, Stars, Men

  1925 On These I Stand,'Heritage'.

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• Not for myself I make this prayer, But for this race of mine That stretches forth from shadowed places Dark hands for bread and wine.

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  Prayer, Wine, Dark

  Countee Cullen (2013). “Countee Cullen: Collected Poems: (American Poets Project #32)”, p.52, Library of America

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• Never love with all your heart, It only ends in aching.

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  Heart, Ends

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

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• Dame Poverty gave me my name,
  And Pain godfathered me.

  Countee Cullen

  Pain, Names, Dames

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

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• Me crié en el ambiente conservador de una casa parroquial metodista.

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  Atmosphere, Conservative, Methodists

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

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• What is last year's snow to me,
  Last year's anything? The tree
  Budding yearly must forget
  How its past arose or set

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  Past, Years, Snow

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

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• Yet do I marvel at this curious thing:/ To make a poet black, and bid him sing!

  Countee Cullen

  Black, Poet, Curious

  "Yet Do I Marvel" l. 13 (1925)

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• [Siempre nos ha molestado la inclinación natural de la mayoría de los blancos a pedir espirituales en cuanto se sabe que un negro va a cantar. Muy a menudo la petición ha parecido tener el sabor de la sensación de que podíamos hacer esto y esto solo.

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  White, People, Feelings

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• The loss of love is a terrible thing; They lie who say that death is worse.

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  Lying, Loss, Love Is

  Countee Cullen (2013). “Countee Cullen: Collected Poems: (American Poets Project #32)”, p.107, Library of America

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• Todo el día y toda la noche, Una sola cosa debo hacer: Apagar mi orgullo y enfriar mi sangre, No sea que perezca en el diluvio.

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  Pride, Night, Blood

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

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• Señor, yo también formo dioses oscuros,
  atreviéndome incluso a darte
  Oscuros rasgos desesperados

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  God, Fashion, Dark

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

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• The night whose sable breast relieves the stark,
  White stars, is no less lovely being dark

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  Stars, Dark, Night

  Countee Cullen (2013). “Countee Cullen: Collected Poems: (American Poets Project #32)”, p.93, Library of America

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• Ever at Thy glowing altar Must my heart grow sick and falter, Wishing He I served were black.

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  Heart, Glowing, Sick

  1925 On These I Stand,'Heritage'.

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• I doubt not God is good, well-meaning, kind

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  God, Doubt, Kind

  Countee Cullen (2013). “Countee Cullen: Collected Poems: (American Poets Project #32)”, p.42, Library of America

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• Me corté los dientes como el mapache negro...
  Para implementos de batalla.

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  Cutting, Black, Battle

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

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• Señor, perdóname si mi necesidad a veces da forma a un credo humano.

  Countee Cullen

  Forgive Me, Forgiving, Needs

  1925 On These I Stand,'Heritage'.

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