Quotes by Hart Crane - Page 1

The bottom of the sea is cruel.
Hart Crane / Poet
Bottom
Sea
Cruel
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Goodbye, everybody! (Suicide note)
Hart Crane / Poet
Goodbye
Suicidal
Suicide
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I can remember much forgetfulness.
Hart Crane / Poet
Forgetfulness
I Can
Remember
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Love: a burnt match skating in a urinal.
Hart Crane / Poet
Broken Heart
Skating
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Permit me voyage, love, into your hands.
Hart Crane / Poet
Hands
Permit
Voyages
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One must be drenched in words, literally soaked in them.
Hart Crane / Poet
Creative Writing
Power Of Language
Written Language
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Let my lusts be my ruin, then, since all else is a fake and a mockery.
Hart Crane / Poet
Fake
Lust
Ruins
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I got so I simply gagged everytime I sat before my desk to write an ad.
Hart Crane / Poet
Sat
Ad
Desk
Everytime
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Stars scribble on our eyes the frosty sagas, The gleaming cantos of unvanquished space. (Cape Hatteras
Hart Crane / Poet
Space
Eye
Stars
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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 / Poet
Inspirational
Men
Writing
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[The essences of things] are suspended on the invisible dimension whose vibrance has been denied the human eye at all times save in the intuition of ecstasy.
Hart Crane / Poet
Essence
Eye
Intuition
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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 / Poet
Bridges
Epic
Long
Prove
Sections
Suitable
Bridge
Contains
Folk
Interrelated
Lore
Lyric
Material
Poem
Therefore
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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 / Poet
Long
Voice
Wind
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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 / Poet
Bridges
Fancy
Writing
Years
Bridge
Contented
Inasmuch
Symbol
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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 / Poet
Delusion
Links
Loss
Past
Real
Vision
Worthy
Exist
Explain
Present
Poem
Rises
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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 / Poet
Sea
Thrown
Believe I Am Me
Answered
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I cannot figure out just what Dadaism is beyond an insane jumble of the four winds, the six senses, and plum pudding. But if the Baroness is to be a keystone for it, — then I think I can possibly know when it is coming and avoid it.
Hart Crane / Poet
Figures
Keystones
Thinking
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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 blue, Drowning the fever of her hands in sunlight. She has no memory, nor fear, nor hope Beyond the grass and shadows at her feet.
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Dream
Blue
Memories
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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 / Poet
Patience
Assured
Materials
Order
Taken
Waiting
Instincts
Final
Wait
Great Deal
Proper
Summon
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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 / Poet
Bridges
Development
Doubt
Epic
Foundation
Manifestation
Mean
Method
Presumption
Bridge
Cultural
Ordered
Organic
Provide
Substantial
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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 / Poet
Journey
Beautiful
Ecstasy
Hands
Acknowledged
Bridge
Most Beautiful
Upward
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There are several more careers more engaging to follow than that of poetry. But the circumstances of one's birth, the conduct of one's parents, the current economic structure of society, and a thousand other local factors have as much or more to say about successions to such occupations, the naive volitions of the poet to the contrary.
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Careers
Occupation
Parent
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