Crane

Famous quotes containing the word crane:

    The imaged word, it is that holds
    Hushed willows anchored in its glow.
    It is the unbetrayable reply
    Whose accent no farewell can know.
    —Hart Crane (1899–1932)

    Always and last, before the final ring
    When all the fireworks blare, begins
    A tom-tom scrimmage with a somewhere violin,
    Some cheapest echo of them all—begins.
    —Hart Crane (1899–1932)

    Yet, to the empty trapeze of your flesh,
    O Magdalene, each comes back to die alone.
    Then you, the burlesque of our lust—and faith,
    Lug us back lifeward—bone by infant bone.
    —Hart Crane (1899–1932)