Countee Cullen

So in the dark we hide the heart that bleeds, And wait, and tend our agonizing seeds.

The truth is... everything counts. Everything. Everything we do and everything we say. Everything helps or hurts; everything adds to or takes away from someone else.

There is no secret to success except hard work and getting something indefinable which we call 'the breaks.' In order for a writer to succeed, I suggest three things - read and write - and wait.

All day long and all night through, One thing only must I do: Quench my pride and cool my blood, Lest I perish in the flood.

Your love to me was like an unread book.