Life is for the living. Death is for the dead. Let life be like music. And death a note unsaid.
LANGSTON HUGHESPolitics in any country in the world is dangerous. For the poet, politics in any country had better be disguised as poetry. Politics can be the graveyard of the poet. And only poetry can be his resurrection.
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Politics in any country in the world is dangerous. For the poet, politics in any country had better be disguised as poetry. Politics can be the graveyard of the poet. And only poetry can be his resurrection.
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A dream deferred is a dream denied.
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Keep your hand on the plow. Hold on.
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Beauty for some provides escape, who gain a happiness in eyeing the gorgeous buttocks of the ape or Autumn sunsets exquisitely dying.
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Life for me ain’t been no crystal stair.
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The calm, Cool face of the river, Asked me for a kiss.
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Looks like what drives me crazy Don’t have no effect on you– But I’m gonna keep on at it Till it drives you crazy, too.
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Both of them were very good and kind – the one who went to church and the one who didn’t. And no doubt from them I learned to like both Christians and sinners equally well.
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When a man starts out to build a world, He starts first with himself
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Cheap little rhymes A cheap little tune Are sometimes as dangerous As a sliver of the moon.
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Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.
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We build our temples for tomorrow, strong as we know how, and we stand on top of the mountain, free within ourselves.
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I swear to the Lord, I still can’t see, why Democracy means, everybody but me.
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The past has been a mint Of blood and sorrow. That must not be True of tomorrow.
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I am a Negro: Black as the night is black, Black like the depths of my Africa.
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