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

Langston Hughes

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Topic

Life and death Life Death

Author

Langston Hughes

Source

Note in Music

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1936 1930s 20th century

Occupation

Black writer Black poet Poet Writer

From

United States

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Original Citation

Hughes, Langston. "Note In Music." Opportunity: Journal of Negro Life, Jan. 1936.

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.

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Topic
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Author

Irving Berlin
Source
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Medium
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Genre
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Language
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Time
1938 1930s 20th century
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Citation

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I should rather labor as another's serf, in the home of a man without fortune, one whose livelihood was meager, than rule over all the departed dead.

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Source
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Medium
Poem
Genre
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Language
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Time
700 BC 700s BC 8th century BC
Era
Classical antiquity
Authentication Score 2
Original Citation

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Current Citation

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