Famous quotes containing the word crane:
“Yet, to the empty trapeze of your flesh,
O Magdalene, each comes back to die alone.
Then you, the burlesque of our lustand faith,
Lug us back lifewardbone by infant bone.”
—Hart Crane (18991932)
“But the star-glistered salver of infinity,
The circle, blind crucible of endless space,
Is sluiced by motion,subjugated never.”
—Hart Crane (18991932)
“And Thee, across the harbor, silver-paced
As though the sun took step of thee, yet left
Some motion ever unspent in thy stride,
Implicitly thy freedom staying thee!”
—Hart Crane (18991932)
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