And yet my father's eyes can boast
How full his life has been;
There haunts them yet the languid ghost
Of some still sacred sin.
(Fruit Of The Flower)
More Quotes from Countee Cullen:
Your love to me was like an unread book.Countee Cullen
I have a rendezvous with life.
Countee Cullen
We have always resented the natural inclination of most white people to demand spirituals the moment it is known that a Negro is about to sing. So often the request has seemed to savor of the feeling that we could do this and this alone.
Countee Cullen
If I am going to be a poet at all, I am going to be POET and not NEGRO POET.
Countee Cullen
Why should she think it devil's art
That all my songs should be
Of love and lovers, broken heart,
And wild sweet agony?
Countee Cullen
Readers Who Like This Quotation Also Like:
Based on Topics: Sin QuotesBased on Keywords: haunts, languid
Music video directors, who conceive, write and direct these works, enjoy no creative rights, receive no ongoing financial benefit from the sale of our work, and many times are not even credited.
Michael Apted
Somebody was asking me the other day - President Bush is now talking about freedom for the Arab world. I say, well, that's great. I was talking about that fifty years ago.
Lakhdar Brahimi
Dr. Einstein was not successful in school, but he found something in the air from his own imagination and his own brain power, and look what he did.
Eartha Kitt