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We have put together a list of some of the best Quotes that Written by Paul Laurence Dunbar
Paul Laurence Dunbar
Total Quotes 27
It's All A Farce, - These Tales They Tell About The Breezes Sighing, And Moans Astir O'er Field And Dell, Because The Year Is Dying.
Years
Dying
Farce
But A Prayer That He Sends From His Heart's Deep Core.
Prayer
Heart
Caged Birds
You Are Sweet, O Love, Dear Love,you Are Soft As The Nesting Dove.come To My Heart And Bring It Restas The Bird Flies Home To Its Welcome Nest.
Sweet
Love You
Home
The Age Is Materialistic. Verse Isn't. I Must Be With The Age, So I Am Writing Prose.
Writing
Age
Materialistic
Oh, How With More Than Dreams The Soul Is Torn, Ere Sleep Comes Down To Soothe The Weary Eyes.
Dream
Sleep
Eye
Taking It All In All And After All, Negro Life In Washington Is A Promise Rather Than A Fulfillment. But It Is Worthy Of Note For The Really Excellent Things Which Are Promised
Promise
Excellent
Notes
This, This Indeed Is To Be Accursed, For If We Mortals Love, Or If We Sing, We Count Our Joys Not By What We Have, But By What Kept Us From That Perfect Thing.
Perfect
Joy
Ifs
Money Is A Great Dignifier.
Money
What Joe Hamilton Lacked More Than Anything Else In The World Was Some One To Kick Him. Many A Man Who Might Have Lived Decently And Become A Fairly Respectable Citizen Has Gone To The Dogs For The Want Of Some One To Administer A Good Resounding Kick At The Right Time. It Is Corrective And Clarifying.
Dog
Men
Citizens
Slight Was The Thing I Bought, Small Was The Debt I Thought, Poor Was The Loan At Best - God! But The Interest!
Debt
Poor
Best God
We Wear The Mask That Grins And Lies.
Lying
Wearing A Mask
Tortured Souls
We Reduce The Deity To Vulgar Fractions. We Place Our Own Little Ambitions And Label Them ?divine Messages?. With Our Short Sight We Affect To Take A Comprehensive View Of Eternity.
Ambition
Godly
Sight
I Know What The Caged Bird Feels, Alas!
Bird
Feels
Alas
All Play And No Work Makes Jack A Mere Toy.
Work
Play
Literature
Washington Is The City Where The Big Men Of Little Towns Come To Be Disillusioned
Men
Cities
Littles
Poor Conceited Humanity! Interpreters Of God Indeed.
Godly
Conceited
Humanity
We Wear The Mask That Grins And Lies, It Hides Our Cheeks And Shades Our Eyes,- - This Debt We Pay To Human Guile; With Torn And Bleeding Hearts We Smile And Mouth With Myriad Subtleties. Why Should The World Be Otherwise, In Counting All Our Tears And Sighs? Nay, Let Them Only See Thus, While We Wear The Mask. We Smile, But, O Great Christ, Our Cries To Thee From Tortured Souls Arise. We Sing, But Oh The Clay Is Vile Beneath Our Feet, And Long The Mile; But Let The World Dream Otherwise, We Wear The Mask!
Dream
Lying
Heart
Only The Rich Are Lonesome.
Rich
Lonesome
People Are Taking It For Granted That [the Negro] Ought Not To Work With His Head. And It Is So Easy For These People Among Whom We Are Living To Believe This; It Flatters And Satisfies Their Self-complacency.
Believe
Self
People
A Crust Of Bread And A Corner To Sleep In. A Minute To Smile And An Hour To Weep In. A Pint Of Joy To A Peck Of Trouble, And Never A Laugh But The Moans Come Double. And That Is Life. A Crust And A Corner That Makes Love Precious, With A Smile To Warm And Tears To Refresh Us, And Joy Seems Sweeter When Cares Come After, And A Moan Is The Finest Of Foils For Laughter. And That Is Life.
Laughter
Sleep
Laughing
A Song Fluttered Down In The Form Of A Dove, And It Bore Me A Message, The One Word-love!
Life
Song
Messages
A Minute To Smile And An Hour To Weep In, A Pint Of Joy To A Peck Of Trouble, And Never A Laugh But The Moans Come Double; And That Is Life!
Smile
Laughing
Joy
I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings, Ah Me, When His Wing Is Bruised And His Bosom Sore,- When He Beats His Bars And Would Be Free; It Is Not A Carol Of Joy Or Glee, But A Prayer That He Sends From His Heart's Deep Core, But A Plea, That Upward To Heaven He Flings- I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings!
Prayer
Heart
Wings
With Our Short Sight We Affect To Take A Comprehensive View Of Eternity. Our Horizon Is The Universe.
Sight
Views
Horizon
Born: June 27, 1872
Died: February 9, 1906
Occupation: Poet
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