Langston Hughes: Citations en anglais
“I do not need my freedom when I’m dead.
I cannot live on tomorrow’s bread.”
Montage of a Dream Deferred (1951)
Contexte: I tire so of hearing people say,
Let things take their course.
Tomorrow is another day.
I do not need my freedom when I’m dead.
I cannot live on tomorrow’s bread.
“I wish the rent Was heaven sent.”
Source: The Collected Poems
“Dream within a dream,
Our dream deferred.
Good morning, daddy!
Ain’t you heard?”
"Island"
Montage of a Dream Deferred (1951)
Variante: What happens
to a dream deferred?
Daddy, ain’t you heard?
“There’s a certain
amount of traveling
in a dream deferred.”
"Same in Blues"
Montage of a Dream Deferred (1951)
Variante: A certain amount
of nothing
in a dream deferred.
Langston Hughes The Weary Blues
"The Weary Blues," from The Weary Blues (1926)
“O, yes,
I say it plain,
America never was America to me,
And yet I swear this oath —
America will be!”
Let America Be America Again (1935)
“Let America be America again.
Let it be the dream it used to be.”
Let America Be America Again (1935)
"Final Curve"
Montage of a Dream Deferred (1951)
“They'll see how beautiful I am
And be ashamed —
I, too, am America.”
"I, Too, Sing America," in the magazine Survey Graphic (March 1925); reprinted in Selected Poems (1959)
"Morning After," (l. 1-6), from Shakespeare in Harlem (1942)
