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Langston Hughes: “Harlem”
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Emily Dickinson said it about the printed word, but it could as easily apply to the other arts as well: There is no frigate like a book To take us lands away, Nor any coursers like a page Of prancing poetry. This traverse may the poorest take Without oppress of toll; How frugal is the chariot That bears a human soul!
Alexander Green • Beyond Wealth
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (Wisehouse Classics Edition)
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Annie Allen had won Brooks the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1950.
Margo Jefferson • Maud Martha
Year’s End - Richard Wilbur
Now winter downs the dying of the year,
And night is all a settlement of snow;
From the soft street the rooms of houses show
A gathered light, a shapen atmosphere,
Like frozen-over lakes whose ice is thin
And still allows some stirring down within.
I’ve known the wind by water banks to shake
The late leaves down, which frozen wh
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“I had much rather starve in England, a free woman than be a slave for the best man that ever breathed upon the American continent.”