Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.
| NUMBER: | 461 |
| AUTHOR: | Langston Hughes (1902–67) |
| QUOTATION: | What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun? Or fester like a sore— And then run? Does it stink like rotten meat? Or crust and sugar over— like a syrupy sweet? Maybe it just sags like a heavy lead. Or does it explode? |
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| SUBJECTS: | Dreams |