#AmericanWriters
And that is what poetry may do, wrap up your dreams, protect and preserve and hold them until maybe they come true. Columbus dreamed of finding a new world, he found it. Edison dreamed ...
Clean the spittoons, boy. Detroit, Chicago, Atlantic City, Palm Beach.
Big Boy came Carrying a mermaid On his shoulders And the mermaid Had her tail
Hold fast to dreams For if dreams die Life is a broken-winged bird That cannot fly. Hold fast to dreams
Here I sit With my shoes mismated. Lawdy—mercy! I’s frustrated!
Democracy will not come Today, this year Nor ever Through compromise and fear. I have as much right
You say I O.K.ed LONG DISTANCE? O.K.ed it when? My goodness, Central That was then!
I’ve known rivers: I’ve known rivers ancient as the w… flow of human blood in human veins My soul has grown deep like the ri… I bathed in the Euphrates when da…
Only dumb guys fight. If I wasn’t dumb I wouldn’t be fightin’. I could make six dollars a day On the docks
What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun? Or fester like a sore— And then run?
I dream a world where man No other man will scorn, Where love will bless the earth And peace its paths adorn I dream a world where all
It would be nice In any case, To someday meet you Face to face Walking down
He glides so swiftly Back into the grass— Gives me the courtesy of road To let me pass, That I am half ashamed
Let America be America again. Let it be the dream it used to be. Let it be the pioneer on the plain Seeking a home where he himself is… (America never was America to me.…
When I get to be a composer I’m gonna write me some music abou… Daybreak in Alabama And I’m gonna put the purtiest so… Rising out of the ground like a sw…