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Claude McKay
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“The shivering birds beneath the eaves Have sheltered for the night.”
Claude McKay (1889–1948) said by 1948 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The pavement slabs burn loose beneath my feet, A chafing savage, down the decent street; And passion rends my vitals as I pass, Where boldly shines your shuttered door of glass.”
Claude McKay (1889–1948) said by 1948 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Oh, I must keep my heart inviolate Against the potent poison of your hate.”
Claude McKay (1889–1948) said by 1948 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If we must die, O let us nobly die, So that our precious blood may not be shed In vain; then even the monsters we defy Shall be constrained to honor us though dead!”
Claude McKay (1889–1948) first seen 1919 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: If We Must Die, l. 5-8 (1919)
“Although she feeds me bread of bitterness, And sinks into my throat her tiger’s tooth, Stealing my breath of life, I will confess I love this cultured hell that tests my youth!”
Claude McKay (1889–1948) said by 1948 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The wine-flushed, bold-eyed boys, and even the girls, Devoured her with their eager, passionate gaze; But looking at her falsely-smiling face, I knew her self was not in that strange place.”
Claude McKay (1889–1948) said by 1948 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Deep in the secret chambers of my heart I muse my life-long hate, and without flinch I bear it nobly as I live my part.”
Claude McKay (1889–1948) said by 1948 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I have forgotten much, but still remember The poinsettia's red, blood-red in warm December.”
Claude McKay (1889–1948) said by 1948 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Oh some I know! I have embalmed the days, Even the sacred moments when we played, All innocent of passion, uncorrupt, At noon and evening in the flame-heart’s shade.”
Claude McKay (1889–1948) said by 1948 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Like men we’ll face the murderous, cowardly pack, Pressed to the wall, dying, but fighting back!”
Claude McKay (1889–1948) said by 1948 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“And, hungry for the old, familiar ways, I turned aside and bowed my head and wept.”
Claude McKay (1889–1948) said by 1948 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I know the dark delight of being strange, The penalty of difference in the crowd, The loneliness of wisdom among fools”
Claude McKay (1889–1948) said by 1948 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Complete Poems, University of Illinois Press, 2004, p. 348