Love is a naked shadow, On a gnarled and naked tree.
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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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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Peace We passed their graves: The dead men there, Winners or losers, Did not care. In the dark They could not see Who had gained The victory.
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Gather up In the arms of your love—Those who expect No love from above.
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Road’s in front o’ me, Nothin’ to do but walk.
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O, let my land be a land where Liberty Is crowned with no false patriotic wreath, But opportunity is real, and life is free, Equality is in the air we breathe.
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For poems are like rainbows; they escape you quickly.
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Blues had the pulse beat of the people who keep on going.
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Life dosent frighten me at all.
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My soul has grown deep like the rivers.
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I tire so of hearing people say, Let things take their course. Tomorrow is another day. I do not need my freedom when I’m dead. I cannot live on tomorrow’s bread.
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I’m so tired of waiting, aren’t you, for the world to become good and beautiful and kind?
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Go home and write / a page tonight. / And let that page come out of you – / Then, it will be true.
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Money and art are far apart.
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Books -where if people suffered, they suffered in beautiful language, not in monosyllables.
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Hang yourself, poet, in your own words. Otherwise, you are dead.
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