“if people bring so much courage to this world the world has to kill them to break them, so of course it kills the

"...so of course it kills them. The world breaks every one and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure it will kill you too but there will be no special hurry." This is a quote from Henry in "A Farewell to Arms" by Ernest Hemingway     In this scene Henry is contemplating the importance of his and Catherine's relationship and how it is his only escape from this vampiric world that seems set on  killing the good people before that can ever help make any changes for the better. 

The speaker  wonders  what happens to a deferred dream. he  wonders  if it dries up like a raisin in the sun, or if it oozes like a wound and then runs.