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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.

Langston Hughes

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Everything there is but lovin’ leaves a rust on your old soul.
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Leaving Love Old Soul Yourself
For poems are like rainbows; they escape you quickly.
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Escape Poem Quick Yourself
Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.
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Bird Break Death Deep Dreams Fast Fly Hold Life Wings
Humor is laughing at what you haven’t got when you ought to have it.
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Laughter Yourself
Life is a big sea full of many fish. I let down my nets and pulled. I’m still pulling.
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Big Life Myself
I don’t dare start thinking in the morning. I don’t dare start thinking in the morning. If I thought thoughts in bed, Them thoughts would bust my head– So I don’t dare start thinking in the morning.
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Dare Morning Myself Start Thinking
Love is a naked shadow, On a gnarled and naked tree.
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Love Naked Shadow Tree Yourself
Teach us all to do right, Lord, please, and to get along together with that atom bomb on this earth because I do not want it to fall on me-nor Thee-nor anybody living. Amen!
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Earth God Live Right Teaching Togetherness
Well, I like to eat, sleep, drink, and be in love. I like to work, read, learn, and understand life.
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Drink Eat Learning Life Reading Sleep Understand Work
The calm, Cool face of the river, Asked me for a kiss.
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Calm Cool Face Kiss Myself River
Go home and write / a page tonight. / And let that page come out of you – / Then, it will be true.
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Home Page Poet True Writing Yourself
I swear to the Lord, I still can’t see, why Democracy means, everybody but me.
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Democracy God Government Myself See
I wish the rent Was heaven sent.
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Heaven Myself
When poems stop talking about the moon and begin to mention poverty, trade unions, color, color lines and colonies, somebody tells the police.
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Beginning Color Moon Poem Police Stop Talk
It has seemed to me that most people are generally good, in every race and in every country where I have been.
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Country Goodness Myself People Race
Life dosent frighten me at all.
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Fear Life Myself One Liner Scare

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