Quotes About Paul Laurence Dunbar

#1. My chief literary influences have been Paul Laurence Dunbar, Carl Sandburg, and Walt Whitman. My favorite public figures include Jimmy Durante, Marlene Dietrich, Mary McLeod Bethune, Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt, Marian Anderson, and Henry Armstrong.

Langston Hughes

#2. With our short sight we affect to take a comprehensive view of eternity. Our horizon is the universe.

Paul Laurence Dunbar

#3. Whenever life is getting tough hold on.
Don't let it get the best of you stay strong.

Laqueisha Malone

#4. 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!

Paul Laurence Dunbar

#5. Money is a great dignifier.

Paul Laurence Dunbar

#6. 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.

Paul Laurence Dunbar

#7. Oh, how with more than dreams the soul is torn, ere sleep comes down to soothe the weary eyes.

Paul Laurence Dunbar

#8. There is work, and there is pleasure; acting is pleasure.

Sofia Vassilieva

#9. 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.

Paul Laurence Dunbar

#10. 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.

Paul Laurence Dunbar

#11. Fire, as we have learned to our cost, has an insatiable hunger to be fed. It is a nonliving force that can even locomote itself.

Loren Eiseley

#12. Washington is the city where the big men of little towns come to be disillusioned

Paul Laurence Dunbar

#13. We wear the mask that grins and lies.

Paul Laurence Dunbar

#14. Only the rich are lonesome.

Paul Laurence Dunbar

#15. Even while living in the world, the heart of Mary was so filled with motherly tenderness and compassion for men that no-one ever suffered so much for their own pains, as Mary suffered for the pains of her children.

St. Jerome

#16. E 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.

Paul Laurence Dunbar

#17. Our challenge as introverts is to adopt the attitude, based on the introversion assumption, that your need to retreat requires no explanation - it is self-evident.

Laurie A. Helgoe

#18. Politicians and figureheads bank on the amnesia of the ignorant.

Darnell Lamont Walker

#19. 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!

Paul Laurence Dunbar

#20. Love me, honey, love me true?
Love me well ez I love you?
An' she answe'd, " 'Cose I do"
Jump back, honey, jump back.

Paul Laurence Dunbar

#21. 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.

Paul Laurence Dunbar

#22. I know what the caged bird feels, alas!

Paul Laurence Dunbar

#23. I think people are frightened by different things, so I don't see myself as particularly courageous.

Robyn Davidson

#24. A song fluttered down in the form of a dove,
And it bore me a message, the one word-Love!

Paul Laurence Dunbar

#25. Hope is tenacious. It goes on living and working when science has dealt it what should be its deathblow.

Paul Laurence Dunbar

#26. 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.

Paul Laurence Dunbar

#27. Poor conceited humanity! Interpreters of God indeed.

Paul Laurence Dunbar

#28. 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

Paul Laurence Dunbar

#29. But a prayer that he sends from his heart's deep core.

Paul Laurence Dunbar

#30. In his moments of pride he had said all those things, half in fun and half in earnest, and he began to wonder how he could have been so many kinds of a fool for so long without realising it.

Paul Laurence Dunbar

#31. All play and no work makes Jack a mere toy.

Paul Laurence Dunbar

#32. I hope there is something worthy in my writings and not merely the novelty of a black face associated with the power to rhyme that has attracted attention.

Paul Laurence Dunbar

#33. The age is materialistic. Verse isn't. I must be with the age, so I am writing prose.

Paul Laurence Dunbar