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> [“If You Should Go Love, leave me like the light, The gently passing day; We would not know, but for the night, When it has slipped away. Go quietly; a dream, When done, should leave no trace That it has…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/countee-cullen/if-you-should-go-love-leave-me-like-the-light-the-gently-passing-day/)

[Countee Cullen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/countee-cullen/)

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## More by Countee Cullen

> [There is no secret to success except hard work and getting something indefinable which we call 'the breaks.' In order for a writer to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/countee-cullen/there-is-no-secret-to-success-except-hard-work-and-getting-something/)

[Countee Cullen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/countee-cullen/)

> [The night whose sable breast relieves the stark, White stars, is no less lovely being dark](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/countee-cullen/the-night-whose-sable-breast-relieves-the-stark-white-stars-is-no/)

[Countee Cullen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/countee-cullen/)

> [Dame Poverty gave me my name, And Pain godfathered me.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/countee-cullen/dame-poverty-gave-me-my-name-and-pain-godfathered-me/)

[Countee Cullen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/countee-cullen/)

> [There is no secret to success except hard work and getting something indefinable which we call 'the breaks.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/countee-cullen/there-is-no-secret-to-success-except-hard-work-and-getting-something-2/)

[Countee Cullen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/countee-cullen/)

> [Ever at Thy glowing altar Must my heart grow sick and falter, Wishing He I served were black.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/countee-cullen/ever-at-thy-glowing-altar-must-my-heart-grow-sick-and-falter-wishing/)

[Countee Cullen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/countee-cullen/)

> [I have a rendezvous with life.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/countee-cullen/i-have-a-rendezvous-with-life/)

[Countee Cullen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/countee-cullen/)

> [“My poetry, I think, has become the way of my giving out what music is within me”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/countee-cullen/my-poetry-i-think-has-become-the-way-of-my-giving-out-what-music-is/)

[Countee Cullen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/countee-cullen/)

> [All day long and all night through, One thing only must I do: Quench my pride and cool my blood, Lest I perish in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/countee-cullen/all-day-long-and-all-night-through-one-thing-only-must-i-do-quench-my/)

[Countee Cullen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/countee-cullen/)

> [Africa? A book one thumbs Listlessly, till slumber comes.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/countee-cullen/africa-a-book-one-thumbs-listlessly-till-slumber-comes/)

[Countee Cullen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/countee-cullen/)

> [What is Africa to me: Copper sun or scarlet sea, Jungle star or jungle track, Strong bronzed men, or regal black Women from whose…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/countee-cullen/what-is-africa-to-me-copper-sun-or-scarlet-sea-jungle-star-or-jungle/)

[Countee Cullen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/countee-cullen/)

> [Your love to me was like an unread book.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/countee-cullen/your-love-to-me-was-like-an-unread-book/)

[Countee Cullen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/countee-cullen/)

> [Give but a grain of the heart's rich seed, Confine some under cover, And when love goes, bid him God-speed. And find another lover.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/countee-cullen/give-but-a-grain-of-the-heart-s-rich-seed-confine-some-under-cover/)

[Countee Cullen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/countee-cullen/)

> [Whatever lives is granted breath But by the grace and sufferance of Death.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/countee-cullen/whatever-lives-is-granted-breath-but-by-the-grace-and-sufferance-of/)

[Countee Cullen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/countee-cullen/)

> [The loss of love is a terrible thing; They lie who say that death is worse.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/countee-cullen/the-loss-of-love-is-a-terrible-thing-they-lie-who-say-that-death-is/)

[Countee Cullen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/countee-cullen/)

> [My poetry has become the way of my giving out what music is within me.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/countee-cullen/my-poetry-has-become-the-way-of-my-giving-out-what-music-is-within-me/)

[Countee Cullen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/countee-cullen/)

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