Langston Hughes

Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly.

Source: "Dreams," Langston Hughes, first published 1922; collected in The Dream Keeper and Other Poems, 1932

From Langston Hughes's short poem 'Dreams.' The verse lines read: 'Hold fast to dreams / For if dreams die / Life is a broken-winged bird / That cannot fly.' The corpus entry runs the lines together as prose and adds a comma after 'dreams' and drops the hyphen in 'broken-winged'; consider restoring the line breaks and the hyphen if the corpus preserves verse formatting. Attribution itself is certain.