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“Life is for the living. Death is for the dead. Let life be like music. And death a note unsaid.”
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“Life is for the living. Death is for the dead. Let life be like music. And death a note unsaid.”25 likes
“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?”0 likes
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“Life is for the living. Death is for the dead. Let life be like music. And death a note unsaid.”
“Stephen kissed me in the spring, Robin in the fall, But Colin only looked at me And never kissed at all. Stephen’s kiss was lost in jest, Robin’s lost in play, But the kiss in Colin’s eyes Haunts me night and day.”
“Although, I admit, I desire, Occasionally, some backtalk From the mute sky, I can't honestly complain: A certain minor light may still Lean incandescent Out of kitchen table or chair As if a celestial burning took Possession of the most obtuse objects now and then --”
“I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow. I feel my fate in what I cannot fear. I learn by going where I have to go.”
“Always in the middle of our bloodiest battles you lay down your arms like flowering mines to conqueror me home.”
“The poem must resist the intelligence Almost successfully.”
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