Hart Crane Quotes

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• Goodbye, everybody! (Suicide note)
• I cannot figure out what Dadaism is. But if the baroness is to be a keystone for it, then I think I can possibly know…
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• Let my lusts be my ruin, then, since all else is a fake and a mockery.
• 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…
• And so she comes to dream herself the tree, The wind possessing her, weaving her young veins, Holding her to the sky and its quick…
• 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…
• Stars scribble on our eyes the frosty sagas, The gleaming cantos of unvanquished space. (Cape Hatteras
• 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…
• 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.
• Permit me voyage, love, into your hands...
• Love: a burnt match skating in a urinal.
• 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…
• One must be drenched in words, literally soaked in them ...
• I got so I simply gagged everytime I sat before my desk to write an ad.
• I think the sea has thrown itself upon me and been answered, at least in part, and I believe I am a little changed -…
• The bottom of the sea is cruel.
• The stars have grooved our eyes with old persuasions Of love and hatred, birth,surcease of nations . . .

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