Langston Hughes Quotes
Hold fast to dreams For when dreams go Life is a barren field Frozen with snow.
Citations
Hughes, Langston. "Dreams." The Weary Blues. Alfred A. Knopf, 1926, p. 109.
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James Mercer Langston Hughes was an American poet, social activist, novelist, playwright, and columnist from Joplin, Missouri. One of the earliest innovators of the then-new literary art form called jazz poetry, Hughes is best known as a leader of the Harlem Renaissance. He famously wrote about the period that "the Negro was in vogue", which was later paraphrased as "when Harlem was in vogue."