“Life is for the living.
Death is for the dead.
Let life be like music.
And death a note unsaid.”
Langston Hughes (1902–1967) American writer and social activist
Source: The Collected Poems
“But I believe that God is overhead
And as life is to the living, so death is to the dead.”
The Two Mysteries (1904).
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Children's writer, novelist, poet, editor 1831–1905Related quotes
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