Hart Crane

"I am unequal to any comparison. Whether I write or act or live, I do so to the full as always against all odds."

"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious."

"My life is a contradiction of disciplines and wildness."

"I have known metal and the love of living."

"There is no other world. This is the only one."

"We make our merriment in the teeth of some obscure malady."

"The intent of the artist is always to suggest and not to present the literal facts."

"I must record the millions of arabesques on this blank check of chaos."

"My blood calls out in answer to the call of the blood in all things."

"Poetry is the language of form and the substance of things not seen."

"I believe in the cosmic kinship of all things."

"To be truly radical is to make hope practical rather than despair convincing."

"I thank whatever gods may be for my unconquerable soul."

"The art of poetry is amoral."

"I would assert the lovely and formidable power of chaos."

"Existence is not some trap; it is a window."

"The bridge swings back and forth between beauty and terror."

"I am the bottom of the sea's confession."

"What music can pierce one's heart more deeply than words?"

"Time is a cruel master of all things."

"I have known all the arenas of the heart."

"The imagination is fundamentally the least rational faculty."

"The sea lifts its level surface and swallows all."

"I seek a wisdom beyond the wisdom of words."

"The vine was dripping, and the air was full of the perfume of flowers."

"Let me record the journey toward what we all desire."

"I have known oceans of dreams."

"The path to success is paved with perseverance."

"There is a twilight between life and death, between knowing and unknowing."

"I was not ready for the change that came."