Famous quotes containing the words countee cullen, cullen and/or library:
“What is last year’s snow to me,
Last year’s anything? The tree
Budding yearly must forget
How its past arose or set—”
—Countee Cullen (1903–1946)
“In sorrow by thy bier we stand,
Amid the awe that hushes all,
And speak the anguish of a land
That shook with horror at thy fall.”
—William Cullen Bryant (1794–1878)
“Readers transform a library from a mausoleum into many theaters.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)