<P> "The Negro Speaks of Rivers" is a poem by American writer Langston Hughes . </P> <P> 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 . </P> <P> According to Hughes, the poem was written while he was 17 and on a train crossing the Mississippi River on the way to visit his father in Mexico in 1920 . Twenty years after its publication, Hughes suggested the poem be turned into a Hollywood film, but the project never went forward . </P> <Table> <Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> This section needs expansion . You can help by adding to it . (February 2011) </Td> </Tr> </Table>

What inspired langston hughes to write the negro speaks of rivers
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