Damn The Odds - Stories about the improbable journey » E. E. Cummings http://damntheodds.com Stories about the improbable journey Mon, 08 Apr 2013 19:07:20 +0000 en hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.0.35 Monday’s quote http://damntheodds.com/2011/11/mondays-quote-7/ http://damntheodds.com/2011/11/mondays-quote-7/#comments Mon, 07 Nov 2011 19:03:48 +0000 http://damntheodds.com/?p=492 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.

 

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“To be nobody but yourself in a world that’s doing its best to make you somebody else, is to fight the hardest battle you are ever going to fight.  Never stop trying.”

E. E. Cummings

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