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 CraneThe form of my poem rises out of a past that so overwhelms the present with its worth and vision that I'm at a loss to explain my delusion that there exist any real links between that past and a future worthy of it.
Hart CraneThe 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