Crane

Famous quotes containing the word crane:

“they are brown and soft,
And liable to melt as snow.”
—Hart Crane (1899–1932)

“Wheeled swiftly, wings emerge from larval-silver hangars.
Taut motors surge, space-gnawing, into flight;”
—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)