“Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.”

— Langston Hughes · Life quote

Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly. — Langston Hughes quote card
Poet · 1901 – 1967

American poet and a leading figure of the Harlem Renaissance.

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