"Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly."
"Out of love, No regrets-- Though the goodness Be wasted forever. Out of love, No regrets-- Though the return Be never."
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Source: Langston Hughes (2001). “The poems, 1951-1967”, University of Missouri
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