List of Paul Laurence Dunbar Quotes

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.

But A Prayer That He Sends From His Heart's Deep Core.

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.

The Age Is Materialistic. Verse Isn't. I Must Be With The Age, So I Am Writing Prose.

Oh, How With More Than Dreams The Soul Is Torn, Ere Sleep Comes Down To Soothe The Weary Eyes.

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

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.

Money Is A Great Dignifier.

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.

Slight Was The Thing I Bought, Small Was The Debt I Thought, Poor Was The Loan At Best - God! But The Interest!

We Wear The Mask That Grins And Lies.

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.