Quotes by Hart Crane

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“Voyages IIIInfinite consanguinity it bears This tendered theme of you that light Retrieves from sea plains where the sky Resigns a breast that every wave enthrones; While ribboned water lanes I win...”

“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 m...”

“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.”

“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 upw...”

“Приспособяваме се тихо към живота,доволни и от бледите утехи,които вятърът довяваи пуска в празните ни джобове.Но още храним обич към светащом спираме пред гладно котенце на прага,готови да го прию...”

“His thoughts, delivered to meFrom the white coverlet and pillow, I see now, were inheritances— Delicate riders of the storm.”

“There are no stars to-nightBut those of memory.Yet how much room for memory there isIn the loose girdle of soft rain.”

“And Thee, across the harbor, silver-pacedAs though the sun took step of thee, yet leftSome motion ever unspent in thy stride,Implicitly thy freedom staying thee!”

“O harp and altar, of the fury fused,(How could mere toil align thy choiring strings!)Terrific threshold of the prophet’s pledge,Prayer of pariah, and the lover’s cry,”

“O Sleepless as the river under thee,Vaulting the sea, the prairies’ dreaming sod,Unto us lowliest sometime sweep, descendAnd of the curveship lend a myth to God.”

“I've always loved Hart Crane; but I love him in fractions, delighting in half a dozen of those rhapsodic poems long on style and short on sense but finding the rest mystifying as a Masonic ritual. ...”

“I admired Crane very much; in fact, I still do...I have always been interested in that dichotomy and in that great paradox in our history. The clash between the pastoral and the technological, and ...”