Literary Birthday – 21 July – Hart Crane
Hart Crane was born on 21 July 1899 and died on 27 April 1932.
Hart Crane Quotes
- I got so I simply gagged every time I sat before my desk to write an ad.
- 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.
- I have wanted to write you more than once, but it will take many letters to let you know what I mean (for myself, at least) when I say that I have seen the Word made Flesh.
- Scatter these well-meant idioms into the smoky spring that fills the suburbs, where they will be lost.
Hart Crane was an American poet. He wrote The Bridge as an epic poem in an attempt to create an epic myth of the American experience. Crane was known for his visionary and intense lyrics that celebrated the richness of life. He was influenced by Walt Whitman, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Robert Browning, and T. S. Eliot. Crane was granted a Guggenheim fellowship in 1931 and went to Mexico City, where he planned to write another verse epic with a Mexican theme. On his voyage back home he jumped from the ship into the Caribbean and drowned.
Source for image: The Poetry Foundation
by Amanda Patterson
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