E. M. Crane Quotes
When a girl says, 'I can't believe I'm doing this!' just know that she had it planned from the minute she shaved
Do not weep, maiden, for war is kind.Because your lover threw wild hands toward the skyAnd the affrighted steed ran on alone,Do not weep.War is kind.
It perhaps might be said--if any one dared--that the most worthless literature of the world has been that which has been written by the men of one nation concerning the men of another.
I saw a man pursuing the horizon;Round and round they sped.I was disturbed at this;I accosted the man."It is futile," I said,"You can never-""You lie," he cried,And ran on.
If you measure your happiness by the amount of liquid you have in your glass, you are either a cliché or an alcoholic.
I never saw anything more like real warfare in my life - only the attack was all on one side. The police, in spite of their numbers, apparently thought they could not cope with the crowd.
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.
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.
The rose has told In one simplicity That never life Relinquishes a bloom But to bestow An ancient confidence.
Believing there's no such thing as luck is very unlucky. Like, the worst. Beyond stealing someone's lucky four-leaf clover.
Let go the lure The striving to unmake; Behold the truth Whenever heart may ache There is a glory In a great mistake.
The sun shall shine in ages yet to be, The musing moon illumine pastures dim, And afterwards a new nativity For all who slept the dreamless interim.
The starry brocade of the summer night Is linked to us as part of our estate; And every bee that wings its sidelong flight Assurance of a sweeter, fairer fate.
What? It's my job as best friend to make sure he's not a serial killer. Or an English major, not sure which one's worse.
A MAN FEARED A man feared that he might find an assassin; Another that he might find a victim. One was more wise than the other.
Tradition, thou art for suckling children, Thou art the enlivening milk for babes, But no meat for men is in thee.
A serious prophet upon predicting a flood should be the first man to climb a tree. This would demonstrate that he was indeed a seer.
You often get a better hold upon a problem by going away from it for a time and dismissing it from your mind altogether.
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 I'll be more contented working in an office than ever before.
A child regards your cheery smile as evidence that you are on his side, so he relaxes and is happier.
I gleaned more practical psychology and psychiatry from the Bible, than from all other books!
He vaguely desired to walk around and around the body and stare; the impulse of the living to try to read in dead eyes the answer to the Question.
People often say that writing is ten percent inspiration and ninety percent perspiration. This is nonsense, of course. It's pretty much one hundred percent caffeine.
It's rooted in my blood to consume you and be consumed by you. To protect you. To please you, in every way. To make you shiver when I touch you. To cause your heart to beat faster.
When it came night, the white waves paced to and fro in the moonlight, and the wind brought the sound of the great sea's voice to the men on shore, and they felt that they could then be interpreters.
One philosophically fascinating aspect of Catholicism is the very strange conception of reality it presents (the incarnation, the eucharist, judgement day etc.).
Between 1994 and the year 2000, when the Republican majority was in control of the House of Representatives, President Clinton played House Speaker Newt Gringrich like a violin!
Sometimes you have to be a bad person to save yourself, and it takes a little chunk out of your soul, but you do it anyway.
You don't love people for what they can give you. You don't love them because of what they do for you or how good you make them look. Love is blind, love does not boast, love is not vain.
Taken as hypotheses, religious claims do very badly. Yet the striking fact is that this does not worry Christians.
Tell her this And more,— That the king of the seas Weeps too, old, helpless man. The bustling fates Heap his hands with corpses Until he stands like a child With surplus of toys.
Oh I'm in love with the janitor's boy, And the janitor's boy loves me; He's going to hunt for a desert isle In our geography.
It doesn't matter who you were or what you've done in the past. The only thing that matters is who you are right now.
I never let politics get personal. You can have the most intense, heated debate on issues, and so long as you keep it on issues, you can go out and have coffee afterwards and you're good friends.
I did that girly little sighing thing you do when you can't handle all the sweetness anymore and bit my lip.
When the suicide arrived at the sky, the people there asked him: "Why?" He replied: "Because no one admired me.
All of my most significant moments somehow involved music. It's like my life was a John Hughes film and somebody had to put together the perfect soundtrack.
Love finds you in the strangest places, and hope clings to us in the nooks and crannies we never think to look.