Crane

Famous quotes containing the word crane:

    “Lo, Lord, Thou ridest!
    Lord, Lord, Thy swifting heart

    Naught stayeth, naught now bideth
    But’s smithereened apart!”
    —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)

    “Keen instruments, strung to a vast precision
    Bind town to town and dream to ticking dream.”
    —Hart Crane (1899–1932)