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1 " Life is for the living.Death is for the dead.Let life be like music. And death a note unsaid. "
― Langston Hughes , The Collected Poems
2 " Hold fast to dreamsfor if dreams dielife is a broken-winged birdthat can not fly.Hold fast to dreamsfor when dreams golife is a barren fieldfrozen with snow. "
3 " HarlemWhat happens to a dream deferred?Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun? Or fester like a sore-- And then run? Does it stink like rotten meat? Or crust and sugar over-- like a syrupy sweet?Maybe it just sags like a heavy load.Or does it explode? "
4 " To some peopleLove is given,To othersOnly Heaven. "
5 " America is a dream.The poet says it was promises.The people say it is promises—that will come true.The people do not always say things out loud,Nor write them down on paper.The people often holdGreat thoughts in their deepest heartsAnd sometimes only blunderingly express them,Haltingly and stumbling say them,And faultily put them into practice.The people do not always understand each other.But there is, somewhere there,Always the trying to understand,And the trying to say,"You are a man. Together we are building our land. "
6 " The past has been a mint Of blood and sorrow. That must not be True of tomorrow. "
7 " Gather up In the arms of your love—Those who expect No love from above. "
8 " I wish the rent Was heaven sent. "
9 " 7 x 7 + love = An amount Infinitely above: 7 x 7 - love. "
10 " Life dosent frighten me at all. "
11 " Go home and write / a page tonight. / And let that page come out of you - / Then, it will be true. "
12 " Quiet Girl"I would liken youTo a night without starsWere it not for your eyes.I would liken youTo a sleep without dreamsWere it not for your songs. "
13 " Besides, They’ll see how beautiful I amAnd be ashamed—I, too, am America. "
14 " Hold fast to dreams "