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Life is for the living. Death is for the dead. Let life be like music. And death a note… — Langston Hughes

Poem

Life is for the living. Death is for the dead. Let life be like music. And death a note unsaid.

Langston Hughes
1936
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Life and deathLifeDeath
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Time
1936
Person
Langston Hughes
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Current citation
Hughes, Langston. "Note In Music." The Collected Works of Langston Hughes: The Poems: 1921-1940, edited by Arnold Rampersad. Vol. 1, University of Missouri Press, 2001.
Original citation
Hughes, Langston. "Note In Music." Opportunity: Journal of Negro Life, Jan. 1936.

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