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Motto

Langston Hughes

I play it cool
I dig all jive
That's the reason
I stay alive
My motto
As I live and learn
Is dig and be dug in return




Quotes of the Day

I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.
• Walt Disney


Poems of the Day
  • Amy Lowell
    Loon Point
    by Amy Lowell
    Softly the water ripples Against the canoe's curving side, Softly the birch trees rustle Flinging over us branches wide. Softly the moon glints and glistens As the water takes and leaves,