Wednesday, July 14, 2010

Dreams

by Langston Hughes

Hold fast to dreams
For if dreams die
Life is a broken-winged bird
That cannot fly.


Hold fast to dreams
For when dreams go
Life is a barren field
Frozen with snow.

from: The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes,
published by Alfred A. Knopf/Vintage. ©1994

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