Crane

Famous quotes containing the word crane:

    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)

    O sinewy silver biplane, nudging the wind’s withers!
    There, from Kill Devils Hill at Kitty Hawk
    Two brothers in their twinship left the dune;
    Warping the gale, the Wright wind wrestlers veered
    Capeward, then blading the wind’s flank, banked and spun.
    —Hart Crane (1899–1932)

    Wheeled swiftly, wings emerge from larval-silver hangars.
    Taut motors surge, space-gnawing, into flight;
    —Hart Crane (1899–1932)