Poetry Quote by Langston Hughes — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“Yet the ivory gods, And the ebony gods, And the gods of diamond-jade, Are only silly puppet gods That people themselves Have made.-”

“Life is for the living.”

“Looks like what drives me crazy”

““Well, I like to eat, sleep, drink, and be in love.”

“What happens to a dream deferred?”

“So since I'm still here livin',”

“Poems can get”

“When I feel my poetry touches someone's heart or mind, I'm fulfilled.”

“It was never about the world being too big, it was more like she was too much for the world to handle.”

“Where do the words go”

“But I have burned already down to bone.”

“The novel is a formidable mass, and it is so amorphous - no mountain in it to climb, no Parnassus or Helicon, not even a Pisgah. It is most distinctly one of the moister areas of literature - irrigated by a hundred rills and occasionally degenerating into a swamp. I do not wonder that the poets despise it, though they sometimes find themselves in it by accident. And I am not surprised at the annoyance of the historians when by accident it finds itself among them.”