Quotes by Paul Laurence Dunbar

Paul Laurence Dunbar

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.

Dying

Farce

Years

Money is a great dignifier.

Money

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

Dream

Eye

Sleep

Only the rich are lonesome.

Lonesome

Rich

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

People

Self

Poor conceited humanity! Interpreters of God indeed.

Conceited

Godly

Humanity

Slight was the thing I bought, small was the debt I thought, Poor was the loan at best – God! but the interest!

Best God

Debt

Poor

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

Excellent

Notes

Promise

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

Age

Materialistic

Writing

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.

Ifs

Joy

Perfect

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Quotes by Paul Laurence Dunbar

Paul Laurence Dunbar

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.

Money is a great dignifier.

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

Only the rich are 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.

Poor conceited humanity! Interpreters of God indeed.

Slight was the thing I bought, small was the debt I thought, Poor was the loan at best – God! but the interest!

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

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

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.

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