2343 - Burgwedel, Lower Saxony, Germany

Kathrin sent greetings from Burgwedel on a card from the Bibliophilia series of postcards - Langston Hughes. 

Langton Hughes (1901 - 1967) was an American poet, social activist, novelist, playwright, and newspaper columnist. He is considered one of the early innovators of jazz poetry and a leader of the Harlem Renaissance. 

The quote of the postcard is from the poem, "The Negro Speaks of Rivers" (1920).  The quote from the poem says, "My soul has grown deep like the rivers."

Here is the poem in its entirety:

I've known rivers:
I've known rivers ancient as the world and older than the
      flow of human blood in human veins.

My soul has grown deep like the rivers.

I bathed in the Euphrates when dawns were young.
I built my hut near the Congo and it lulled me to sleep.
I looked upon the Nile and raised the pyramids above it.
I heard the singing of the Mississippi when Abe Lincoln
     went down to New Orleans, and I've seen its muddy
     bosom turn all golden in the sunset.

I've known rivers:
Ancient, dusky rivers.


My soul has grown deep like the rivers.