Harlem

What 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?

Langston Hughes

Stichwörter: poetry dreams



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I have discovered in life that there are ways of getting almost anywhere you want to go, if you really want to go.

Langston Hughes

Stichwörter: dreams determination aspirations



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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.

Langston Hughes

Stichwörter: poetry evil crazy craziness



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Out of love,
No regrets--
Though the goodness
Be wasted forever.

Out of love,
No regrets--
Though the return
Be never.

Langston Hughes

Stichwörter: love poetry no-regrets



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Gather out of star-dust,
Earth-dust,
Cloud-dust,
Storm-dust,
And splinters of hail,
One handful of dream-dust,
Not for sale.

Langston Hughes


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Pleasured equally
In seeking as in finding,
Each detail minding,
Old Walt went seeking
And finding.

Langston Hughes

Stichwörter: poetry seeking finding walt-whitman



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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.

Langston Hughes

Stichwörter: life love death perseverance



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I went down to the river,
I set down on the bank.
I tried to think but couldn't,
So I jumped in and sank.

Langston Hughes

Stichwörter: poetry death suicide desperation drowning



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Though you may hear me holler,
And you may see me cry--
I'll be dogged, sweet baby,
If you gonna see me die.

Langston Hughes

Stichwörter: pain death perseverance hardship



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Hold fast to dreams
for if dreams die
life is a broken-winged bird
that can not fly.

Hold fast to dreams
for when dreams go
life is a barren field
frozen with snow.

Langston Hughes

Stichwörter: dreams



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