Paul Laurence Dunbar Quotes


A song fluttered down in the form of a dove,
And it bore me a message, the one word-Love!


Citations

Dunbar, Paul Laurence. The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar. Dodd, Mead and Company, 1913.

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Paul Laurence Dunbar
Paul Laurence Dunbar
  • Born: June 27, 1872
  • Died: February 9, 1906
  • Nationality: American
  • Profession: Poet

Paul Laurence Dunbar was an American poet, novelist, and short story writer of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Born in Dayton, Ohio, to parents who had been enslaved in Kentucky before the American Civil War, Dunbar began writing stories and verse when he was a child. He published his first poems at the age of 16 in a Dayton newspaper, and served as president of his high school's literary society.