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One must be drenched in words, literally soaked in them, to have t

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

Other quotes by Hart Crane

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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Poetry
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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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A word is not the same with one writer as with another. One tears it from his guts. The other pulls it out of his overcoat pocket. – Charles Peguy

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