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Countee Cullen [1903-1946] American
Rank: 107
Poet (with poems)

Formalism, Harlem Renaissance


Countee Cullen, born as Coleman Rutherford, was an African American poet, author and scholar who was a leading figure in the Harlem Renaissance. He pronounced his name "Coun-tay", not "Coun-tee".


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I have a rendezvous with life.
101
Your love to me was like an unread book.
102
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.
103
So in the dark we hide the heart that bleeds, And wait, and tend our agonizing seeds.
104
I was reared in the conservative atmosphere of a Methodist parsonage.
105
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.
106

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