Hart Crane Quotes

• 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

  Inspirational, Writing, Men

  Hart Crane (1965). “Letters, 1916-1932”

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• Let my lusts be my ruin, then, since all else is a fake and a mockery.

  Hart Crane

  Fake, Lust, Ruins

  Hart Crane (1965). “Letters, 1916-1932”

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• Love: a burnt match skating in a urinal.

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  Broken Heart, Skating

  1930 The Bridge,'The Tunnel'.

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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, Memories, Blue

  Hart Crane (1966). “The complete poems and selected letters and prose of Hart Crane”, Anchor

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• Permit me voyage, love, into your hands.

  Hart Crane

  Hands, Voyages, Permit

  Hilton Landry, Elaine Landry, Robert J. DeMott, Hart Crane (1973). “A concordance to the poems of Hart Crane”, Scarecrow Pr

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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

  Patience, Taken, Order

  Hart Crane (1965). “Letters, 1916-1932”

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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.

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  Real, Loss, Past

  Hart Crane (1965). “The letters of Hart Crane, 1916-1932”

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• Goodbye, everybody! (Suicide note)

  Hart Crane

  Goodbye, Suicide, Suicidal

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• I can remember much forgetfulness.

  Hart Crane

  Remember, Forgetfulness, I Can

  Hilton Landry, Elaine Landry, Robert J. DeMott, Hart Crane (1973). “A concordance to the poems of Hart Crane”, Scarecrow Pr

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• Stars scribble on our eyes the frosty sagas, The gleaming cantos of unvanquished space. (Cape Hatteras

  Hart Crane

  Stars, Eye, Space

  1930 The Bridge,'Cape Hatteras'.

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• One must be drenched in words, literally soaked in them.

  Hart Crane

  Creative Writing, Written Language, Power Of Language

  Brom Weber, Hart Crane (1970). “Hart Crane: a biographical and critical study”

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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.

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  Eye, Essence, Intuition

  Hart Crane (1965). “Letters, 1916-1932”

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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.

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  Beautiful, Journey, Hands

  Brom Weber, Hart Crane (1970). “Hart Crane: a biographical and critical study”

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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

  Thinking, Figures, Keystones

  "Hart Crane: a biographical and critical study".

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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, Parent, Occupation

  Hart Crane (1965). “Letters, 1916-1932”

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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.

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  Wind, Voice, Long

  Hart Crane (1970). “The bridge: a poem”

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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.

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  Epic, Bridges, Long

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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.

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  Mean, Epic, Bridges

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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.

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  Writing, Years, Bridges

  Hart Crane (1965). “The letters of Hart Crane, 1916-1932”

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