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

“I went down to the river,”

““Oh, God of Dust and Rainbows,”

“Humor is laughing at what you haven't got when you ought to have it.”

“The sea is a desert of waves,”

“Life is for the living.”

“I might be old enough to know better, but I am not old enough to do better.”

“لا تملَّ أو تغضبْ أو تكتئب”

“I’ll tell you how we’re wrong enough to be forgiven. How one night, after backhanding mother, then taking a chain saw to the kitchen table, my father went to kneel in the bathroom until we heard his muffled cries through the walls. & so I learned—that a man in climax was the closest thing”

“... unfools of unbeing ... means quite clearly people who are too stereotyped to be eccentric – people who are too dead spiritually to exist at all and who call alive individual fools”

“Oh! kangaroos, sequins, chocolate sodas! / You really are beautiful! Pearls, / harmonicas, jujubes, aspirins!”

“I see a bird carrying me and carrying you, with us as its wings, beyond the dream, to a journey that has no end and no beginning, no purpose and no goal. I do not speak to you, and you do not speak to me; we listen only to the music of silence. Silence is the friend's trust of friend, imagination's self-confidence between rain and rainbow.”

“a silent night. - the most eloquent poem i have ever read.”