Selected Poems Quotes
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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.”
― Selected Poems
Don't have no effect on you--
But I'm gonna keep on at it
Till it drives you crazy, too.”
― Selected Poems
“So since I'm still here livin',
I guess I will live on.
I could've died for love--
But for livin' I was born.”
― Selected Poems
I guess I will live on.
I could've died for love--
But for livin' I was born.”
― Selected Poems
“Out of love,
No regrets--
Though the goodness
Be wasted forever.
Out of love,
No regrets--
Though the return
Be never.”
― Selected Poems
No regrets--
Though the goodness
Be wasted forever.
Out of love,
No regrets--
Though the return
Be never.”
― Selected Poems
“I will take your heart.
I will take your soul out of your body
As though I were God.
I will not be satisfied
With the little words you say to me.
I will not be satisfied
With the touch of your hand
Nor the sweet of your lips alone.
I will take your heart for mine.
I will take your soul.
I will be God when it comes to you.”
― Selected Poems
I will take your soul out of your body
As though I were God.
I will not be satisfied
With the little words you say to me.
I will not be satisfied
With the touch of your hand
Nor the sweet of your lips alone.
I will take your heart for mine.
I will take your soul.
I will be God when it comes to you.”
― Selected Poems
“Island
Wave of sorrow,
Do not drown me now:
I see the island
Still ahead somehow.
I see the island
And its sands are fair:
Wave of sorrow,
Take me there.”
― Selected Poems
Wave of sorrow,
Do not drown me now:
I see the island
Still ahead somehow.
I see the island
And its sands are fair:
Wave of sorrow,
Take me there.”
― Selected Poems
“Final Curve
When you turn the corner
And you run into yourself
Then you know that you have turned
All the corners that are left”
― Selected Poems
When you turn the corner
And you run into yourself
Then you know that you have turned
All the corners that are left”
― Selected Poems
“The speaker catches fire
looking at their faces.
His words
jump down to stand
in listener's places.”
― Selected Poems
looking at their faces.
His words
jump down to stand
in listener's places.”
― Selected Poems
“You are white-
Yet a part of me as I am a part of you.
That's American....
AsI learn from you,
I guess you learn from me-
Although you're older-and white-
And somewhat more free.”
― Selected Poems
Yet a part of me as I am a part of you.
That's American....
AsI learn from you,
I guess you learn from me-
Although you're older-and white-
And somewhat more free.”
― Selected Poems
“Freedom Is a strong seed Planted In a great need. I live here, too. I want freedom Just as you.”
― Selected Poems of Langston Hughes
― Selected Poems of Langston Hughes
“Though you may hear me holler, And you may see me cry— I’ll be dogged, sweet baby, If you gonna see me die. Life is fine! Fine as wine! Life is fine!”
― Selected Poems of Langston Hughes
― Selected Poems of Langston Hughes
“I'm like that old mule-
Black- and don't give a damn!
You got to take me
Like I am.”
― Selected Poems
Black- and don't give a damn!
You got to take me
Like I am.”
― Selected Poems
“What shall I tell my children?...You tell me-
'Cause freedom ain't freedom when a man ain't free.”
― Selected Poems
'Cause freedom ain't freedom when a man ain't free.”
― Selected Poems
“Gather up In the arms of your love— Those who expect No love from above.”
― Selected Poems of Langston Hughes
― Selected Poems of Langston Hughes
“And then the wall rose, Rose slowly, Slowly, Between me and my dream. Rose slowly, slowly, Dimming, Hiding, The light of my dream. Rose until it touched the sky— The wall.”
― Selected Poems of Langston Hughes
― Selected Poems of Langston Hughes
“Fact:
There’s been an eagle on a nickel,
An eagle on a quarter, too.
But there ain’t no eagle
On a dime.”
― Selected Poems
There’s been an eagle on a nickel,
An eagle on a quarter, too.
But there ain’t no eagle
On a dime.”
― Selected Poems
“The night is beautiful,
So the faces of my people.
The stars are beautiful,
So the eyes of my people.
Beautiful, also, is the sun.
Beautiful, also, are the souls of my people.”
― Selected Poems
So the faces of my people.
The stars are beautiful,
So the eyes of my people.
Beautiful, also, is the sun.
Beautiful, also, are the souls of my people.”
― Selected Poems
“PERSONAL
In an envelope marked:
Personal
God addressed me a letter.
In an envelope marked:
Personal
I have given my answer.”
― Selected Poems
In an envelope marked:
Personal
God addressed me a letter.
In an envelope marked:
Personal
I have given my answer.”
― Selected Poems
“Babe, did you ever
See the sun
Rise at dawnin' full of fun?
Says, did you ever see the sun rise
Full of fun, full of fun?
Then you know a new day's
Done begun.”
― Selected Poems
See the sun
Rise at dawnin' full of fun?
Says, did you ever see the sun rise
Full of fun, full of fun?
Then you know a new day's
Done begun.”
― Selected Poems