Quote by Hart Crane
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

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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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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A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people. – Thomas Mann, Essays of Three Decades, 1947

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A person who publishes a book willfully appears before the populace with his pants down. – Edna St. Vincent Millay

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And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt. – Sylvia Plath

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I would hurl words into this darkness and wait for an echo, and if an echo sounded, no matter how faintly, I would send other words to tell, to march, to fight, to create a sense of hunger for life that gnaws in us all. – Richard Wright, American Hunger, 1977

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Education is our only political safety. Outside of this ark all is deluge. – Horace Mann

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Our sympathy is cold to the relation of distant misery. – Edward Gibbon

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But for my faith in God, I should have been a raving maniac. – Mahatma Gandhi

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I think Serena Williams is the best tennis player of this generation, if not the best ever. It is amazing for her to be playing as well as she is at the age of 31. – Samantha Stosur

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