How still, How strangely still The water is today, It is not good For …

Langston Hughes
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How still, How strangely still The water is today, It is not good For water To be so still that way. ~ Sea Calm ✨ Langston Hughes, Dolan Hubbard (2003). The Collected Works of Langston Hughes: Works for children and young adults: poetry, fiction, and other writing, p.55, University of Missouri Press
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I stuck my head out the window this morning and spring kissed me bang in the face. ✨ Langston Hughes, Donna Sullivan Harper (2002). The Early Simple Stories, p.110, University of Missouri Press
To some people Love is given, To others Only Heaven. ✨ Langston Hughes (2001). The Collected Works of Langston Hughes: The poems, 1941-1950, p.116, University of Missouri Press
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