{All Along}

"Say to them,
Say to the down keepers,
the sun-slappers,
the self-soilers,
the harmony-hushers,
"Even if you are not ready for the day
it cannot always be night."
You will be right.
For that is the hard home-run.
Live not for the battles won.
Live not for the-end-of-the-day-song.
Live in the along. -
Gwendolyn Brooks, Selected Poems

{Summer Sundays in the City}

You said, 'They’re harmless dreamers and they’re loved by the people.' 'What,' I asked you, 'is harmless about a dreamer, and what,' I asked you, 'is harmless about the love of the people? Revolution only needs good dreamers who remember their dreams.” ― Tennessee Williams