Good morning, daddy!
Ain't you heard
The boogie-woogie rumble
Of a dream deferred?

Listen closely:
You'll hear their feet
Beating out and beating out a -

You think
It's a happy beat?

Listen to it closely:
Ain't you heard
something underneath
like a -

What did I say?

Sure,
I'm happy!
Take it away!
Dream Boogie

Hey, pop!
Re-bop!
Mop!

Y-e-a-h!

Langston Hughes

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Live for everything, or die for nothing

Nate Spears

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Any hand can condem, but it takes a helping hand to build.

Nate Spears

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No thought is a stupid thought, those who are thoughtless are thought of as stupid.

Nate Spears

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I am hard to disgust, but a pretentious poet can do it

Marianne Moore

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When confronted with suffering that won't go away or with even a minor problem, we instinctively focus on what is missing,...not on the Master's hand. Often when you think everything has gone wrong, it's just that you're in the middle of a story. If you watch the stories God is weaving in your life, you... will begin to see the patterns. You'll become a poet, sensitive to your Father's voice.

Paul E. Miller

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Saki says that youth is like hors d'oeuvres: you are so busy thinking of the next courses you don't notice it. When you've had them, you wish you'd had more hors d'oeuvres.

Philip Larkin

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There is bad in all good authors: what a pity the converse isn't true!

Philip Larkin

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I feel the only thing you can do about life is to preserve it, by art if you're an artist, by children if you're not.

Philip Larkin

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Everyone should be forcibly transplanted to another continent from their family at the age of three.

Philip Larkin

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