"Eric Walrond, handsome, cosmopolitan, and beguilingly enigmatic, may have been the most promising literary talent of the Harlem Renaissance.... James Davis's finely written, beautifully paced Eric Walrond is a major biography of a fascinating figure."

-- David Levering Lewis

#Handsome Quotes #Eric Quotes #Renaissance Quotes

“You can't make good scores happen. You've got to let it happen.”
“l am not resigned to the shutting away of loving hearts in the hard ground. So it is, and so it will be, for so it has been, time out of mind: Into the darkness they go, the wise and the lovely. Crowned With lilies and with laurel they go; but I am not resigned.”
“Walter Payton is still the best back ever to play the game.”
“I hate to mention age, but I come from an era when we weren't consumed by technology and television.”
“The Eucharist had so powerful an attraction for the Blessed Virgin that she could not live away from It. She lived in It and by It. She passed her days and her nights at the feet of her Divine Son... Her love for her hidden God shone in her countenance and communicated its ardor to all about her.”
“Real life was messier than fiction, and in it you didn't always have time to do or say the right things.”

Source : Bentley Little (2004). “The Resort”, p.300, Penguin
“When a writer knows home in his heart, his heart must remain subtly apart from it.”

Source : Willie Morris (2012). “Yazoo: Integration in a Deep-Southern Town”, p.27, University of Arkansas Press
“The heart the heart the heart how it thrives on hate.”

Source : Hilda Doolittle, Louis L. Martz (1986). “Collected Poems 1912-1944”, p.379, New Directions Publishing

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