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For poems are like rainbows; they escape you quickly.

Langston Hughes

The Big Sea (1940)

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For poems are like rainbows; they escape you quickly.

For poems are like rainbows; they escape you quickly.

For poems are like rainbows; they escape you quickly.

For poems are like rainbows; they escape you quickly.

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From too much love of living, From hope and fear set free, We thank with brief thanksgiving Whatever gods may be That no life lives for ever, That dead men rise up never; That even the weariest river Winds somewhere safe to sea.

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Langston Hughes

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Born: February 1, 1902

Died: May 22, 1967 (aged 65)

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