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

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

There is a silence where hath been no sound,
There is a silence where no sound may be,
In the cold grave-under the deep, deep sea.