what are some words (poems, lyrics, quotes ETC) that have meaning to you or have touched or influenced you?
one of mine would have to be a poem written by langston hughes called dreams deferred
Hold fast to dreams
For if dreams die
Life is a broken-winged bird
That cannot fly
Hold fast to dreams
For when dreams go
Life is a barren field
Frozen with snow
Simon the Cyrenian Speaks
He never spoke a word to me,
And yet He called my name,
He never gave a sign to me,
And yet I knew and came.
At first I said "I will not bear
His cross upon my back;
He only seeks to place it there
Because my skin is black."
But He was dying for a dream,
And He was never meek,
And in His eyes there shone a gleam
Men journey far to seek.
It was Himself my pity bought;
I did for Christ alone
What all of Rome could not have wrought
With bruise of lash or stone.
-Countee Cullen
This it is to be
A man of the highest type
To be and not seem
To do and no simply to talk
To have the right Ideal, True motive
And patiently transform conduct
In accordance with it
