Jessie Redmon Fauset: There is no...

Menu: Browse Below

Blog

FRANK's Components of Creativity

DRAMATISTS > poet, novelist > Jessie Redmon Fauset

Jessie Redmon Fauset: There is no...

Source: DRAMATISTS

Click Here for more quotes from this famous person

There is no peace with you
Nor any rest!
Your presence is a torture to the brain.
Your words are barbed arrows to the breast.

Source: Enigma, in Poetry of the Negro, ed. Bontemps, 1949.
-- Jessie Redmon Fauset, (Apr 27 1882-1961), US poet, novelist; She was a significant figure of the Harlem Renaissance as literary editor of The Crisis; wrote four novels, including There Is Confusion.

Quotable Women
Harrisonburg, VA