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

“Life is for the living.”

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

“So since I'm still here livin',”

““Oh, God of Dust and Rainbows,”

“What happens to a dream deferred?”

“Out of love,”

“You do not know how much they mean to me, my friends,”

“I swear that girl was born with a pen in her hand, the moon in her hair, and stars in her soul.”

“Beauty makes me hopeless. I don't care why anymore I just want to get away. When I look at the city of Paris I long to wrap my legs around it. When I watch you dancing there is a heartless immensity like a sailor in a dead-calm sea. Desires as round as peaches bloom in me all night, I no longer gather what falls.”

“I sat, a solitary man,”

“The Journey”

“I will go to campus alone dressed in antique silk slips and beat-up cowboy boots and gypsy beads, and I will study poetry. I will sit on the edge of the fountain in the plaza and write.”