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Hart Crane

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The bottom of the sea is cruel.

Hart Crane

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And so it was I entered the broken world
To trace the visionary company of love, its voice
An instant in the wind (I know not whither hurled)
But not for long to hold each desperate choice.

Hart Crane

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Let my lusts be my ruin, then, since all else is a fake and a mockery.

Hart Crane

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And biased by full sails, meridians reel
Thy purpose—still one shore beyond desire!
The sea’s green crying towers a-sway, Beyond.

Hart Crane

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The phonographs of hades in the brain
Are tunnels that re-wind themselves, and love
A burnt match skating in a urinal—

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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