Countee Cullen Library

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    “Not yet has my heart or head
    In the least way realized
    They and I are civilized.”
    —Countee Cullen (1903–1946)

    “Lord, I fashion dark gods, too,
    Daring even to give You
    Dark despairing features”
    —Countee Cullen (1903–1946)

    “With sighs more lunar than bronchial,
    Howbeit eluding fallopian diagnosis,
    She simpers into the tribal library and reads
    That Keats died of tuberculosis . . .”
    —Allen Tate (1899–1979)