Quote by Hart Crane
And inasmuch as the bridge is a symbol of all such poetry as I am

And inasmuch as the bridge is a symbol of all such poetry as I am interested in writing it is my present fancy that a year from now Ill be more contented working in an office than ever before. – Hart Crane

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One must be drenched in words, literally soaked in them, to have the right ones form themselves into the proper pattern at the right moment. – Hart Crane

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The fact that The Bridge contains folk lore and other material suitable to the epic form need not therefore prove its failure as a long lyric poem, with interrelated sections. – Hart Crane

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Failure
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It has taken a great deal of energy, which has not been so difficult to summon as the necessary patience to wait, simply wait much of the time – until my instincts assured me that I had assembled my materials in proper order for a final welding into their natural form. – Hart Crane

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As things are, and as fundamentally they must always be, poetry is not a career, but a mugs game. No honest poet can ever feel quite sure of the permanent value of what he has written: He may have wasted his time and messed up his life for nothing. – T. S. Eliot

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Im quite sure that most writers would sustain real poetry if they could, but it takes devotion and talent. – Marguerite Young

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Poetry is not only a set of words which are chosen to relate to each other it is something which goes much further than that to provide a glimpse of our vision of the world. – Tahar Ben Jelloun

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There is a wonderful Hungarian literature, especially in lyric poetry. – Gyorgy Ligeti

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