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Hart Crane Quotes

Hart Crane quotes

American Poet July 21, 1899 – April 26, 1932

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And so it was I entered the broken world. To trace the visionary company of love, its voice. An instant in the wind (I know not whither hurled)But not for long to hold each desperate choice. Hart Crane
Hart Crane quote: "Permit me voyage, love, into your hands..."
Permit me voyage, love, into your hands... Hart Crane
Hart Crane quote: "Love: a burnt match skating in a urinal."
Love: a burnt match skating in a urinal. Hart Crane
And I have been able to give freedom and life which was acknowledged in the ecstasy of walking hand in hand across the most beautiful bridge of the world, the cables enclosing us and pulling us upward in such a dance as I have never walked and never can walk with another. Hart Crane
It has taken a great deal of energy, which has not been so difficult to summon as the necessary patience to wait, simply wait much of the time - until my instincts assured me that I had assembled my materials in proper order for a final welding into their natural form. Hart Crane
I think the sea has thrown itself upon me and been answered, at least in part, and I believe I am a little changed - not essentially, but changed and transubstantiated as anyone is who has asked a question and been answered. Hart Crane
O sleepless as the river under thee, / Vaulting the sea, the prairies' dreaming sod, / Onto us lowliest sometime sweep, descend / And of the curveship lend a myth to God. Hart Crane
How many dawns, chill from his rippling rest The seagull’s wings shall dip and pivot him, Shedding white rings of tumult, building high Over the chained bay waters Liberty— Then, with inviolate curve, forsake our eyes As apparitional as sails that cross Some page of figures to be filed away; —Till elevators drop us from our day ... Hart Crane
And inasmuch as the bridge is a symbol of all such poetry as I am interested in writing it is my present fancy that a year from now I'll be more contented working in an office than ever before. Hart Crane
The form of my poem rises out of a past that so overwhelms the present with its worth and vision that I'm at a loss to explain my delusion that there exist any real links between that past and a future worthy of it. Hart Crane
The fact that The Bridge contains folk lore and other material suitable to the epic form need not therefore prove its failure as a long lyric poem, with interrelated sections. Hart Crane
Your primary presumption that The Bridge was proffered as an epic has no substantial foundation. You know quite well that I doubt that our present stage of cultural development is so ordered yet as to provide the means or method for such an organic manifestation as that. Hart Crane
Hart Crane quote: "The bottom of the sea is cruel."
The bottom of the sea is cruel. Hart Crane
The bells, I say, the bells break down their tower; And swing I know not where. Their tongues engrave. Membrane through marrow, my long-scattered score. Of broken intervals? And I, their sexton slave! Hart Crane
One must be drenched in words, literally soaked in them, to have the right ones form themselves into the proper pattern at the right moment. Hart Crane

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