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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

Nothing is more sad than the death of an illusion

• Arthur Koestler



Poems of the Day
  • Edgar Lee Masters
    Oaks Tutt
    by Edgar Lee Masters
    My mother was for woman's rights And my father was the rich miller at London Mills. I dreamed of the wrongs of the world and wanted to right them.