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Quiet Girl

Langston Hughes

I would liken you
To a night without stars
Were it not for your eyes.
I would liken you
To a sleep without dreams
Were it not for your songs.




Quotes of the Day

I think it better that in times like these a poets mouth be silent, for in truth we have no gift to set a statesman right

• William Butler Yeats



Poems of the Day
  • Anne Sexton
    Doors, Doors, Doors
    by Anne Sexton
    1. Old Man Old man, it's four flights up and for what? Your room is hardly bigger than your bed. Puffing as you climb, you are a brown woodcut stooped over the thin tail and the wornout tread.