Life is for the living.
Death is for the dead.
Let life be like music.
And death a note unsaid.
Humor is laughing at what you haven't got when you ought to have it.
Well, I like to eat, sleep, drink, and be in love.
I like to work, read, learn, and understand life.
Oh, God of Dust and Rainbows,
Help us to see
That without the dust the rainbow
Would not be.
So since I'm still here livin',
I guess I will live on.
I could've died for love-
But for livin' I was born.
LIBERTY!
FREEDOM!
DEMOCRACY!
True anyhow no matter how many
Liars use those words.
Yet the ivory gods, And the ebony gods, And the gods of diamond-jade, Are only silly puppet gods That people themselves Have made.-
Hold fast to dreams,
For if dreams die
Life is a broken-winged bird,
That cannot fly.
Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.
I went down to the river,
I set down on the bank.
I tried to think but couldn't,
So I jumped in and sank.
Though you may hear me holler,
And you may see me cry-
I'll be dogged, sweet baby,
If you gonna see me die.
Looks like what drives me crazy
Don't have no effect on you-
But I'm gonna keep on at it
Till it drives you crazy, too.
Cheap little rhymes
A cheap little tune
Are sometimes as dangerous
As a sliver of the moon.
Out of love,
No regrets-
Though the goodness
Be wasted forever.
Out of love,
No regrets-
Though the return
Be never.
Pleasured equally
In seeking as in finding,
Each detail minding,
Old Walt went seeking
And finding.
I stay cool, and dig all jive,
That's the way I stay alive.
My motto,
as I live and learn,
is
Dig and be dug
In return.
I was unhappy for a long time, and very lonesome, living with my grandmother. Then it was that books began to happen to me, and I began to believe in nothing but books and the wonderful world in books - where if people suffered, they suffered in beautiful language, not in monosyllables, as we did in Kansas.
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