Monday’s quote

Monday’s quote is a short poem titled “Dreams” by American poet and social activist Langston Hughes.  He’s best known for writing about the struggles of African Americans during the Harlem Renaissance.  He, along with other talented artists like Ezra Pound, T. S. Eliot, and E. E. Cummings,  was an early innovator of jazz poetry.

Dreams

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.

Tags: Dream, E. E. Cummings, Ezra Pound, Harlem Renaissance, jazz poetry, Langston Hughes, T. S. Eliot