What did Langston Hughes mean by: For my best poems were all written when I felt the worst. When I was happy, I didn’t write anything. - Langston Hughes Poet · USA Copy
+ Humor is when the joke’s on you but hits the other fellow first — before it boomerangs. Feraz Zeid, January 13, 2024January 13, 2024, Langston Hughes, Boomerang, Jokes, 0 - Langston Hughes Poet · USA
+ I swear to the Lord, I still can’t see, why Democracy means, everybody but me. Feraz Zeid, January 13, 2024January 13, 2024, Langston Hughes, Political, Racism, 0 - Langston Hughes Poet · USA
+ Love is a naked shadow, On a gnarled and naked tree. Feraz Zeid, August 8, 2023December 12, 2023, Langston Hughes, Love, Shadow, 0 - Langston Hughes Poet · USA
+ Gather up In the arms of your love—Those who expect No love from above. Feraz Zeid, January 13, 2024January 13, 2024, Langston Hughes, Arms, No Love, 0 - Langston Hughes Poet · USA
+ Keep your hand on the plow. Hold on. Feraz Zeid, October 27, 2023December 26, 2023, Langston Hughes, Hand, 0 - Langston Hughes Poet · USA
+ There is no color line in art. Feraz Zeid, October 10, 2023December 26, 2023, Langston Hughes, Color, 0 - Langston Hughes Poet · USA
+ I asked you, baby, If you understood- You told me that you didn’t, But you thought you would. Feraz Zeid, January 13, 2024January 13, 2024, Langston Hughes, Baby, Understood, 0 - Langston Hughes Poet · USA
+ America never was America to me And yet I swear this oath – America will be! Feraz Zeid, January 13, 2024January 13, 2024, Langston Hughes, America, Breaking Silence, Oath, 0 - Langston Hughes Poet · USA
Whatever may be our natural talents, the art of writing is not acquired all at once. Explain - Jean-Jacques Rousseau Philosopher · Switzerland
Literature flourishes best when it is half a trade and half an art. - William Ralph Inge Theologian and Anglican priest · England
To express truth is to write naturally, forcibly, and delicately. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
A mediocre mind thinks it writes divinely; a good mind thinks it writes reasonably. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
It is the glory and merit of some men to write well and of others not to write at all. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
He who will not listen to any advice, nor be corrected in his writings, is a rank pedant. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
Writing, like drawing is an art, and whatever conveys the meaning is justified. - Maxwell Perkins Editor · USA
