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Once a poet calls his myth a myth, he prevents the reader from treating it as a reality; we use the word 'myth' only for — Adam Kirsch
It was not well to drive men into final corners — at those moments they could all develop teeth and claws.
He saw that it was an ironical thing for him to be running thus toward that which he had been at such pains to avoid. — Stephen Crane
The ranks opened covertly to avoid the corpse. The invulnerable dead man forced a way for himself. The youth looked keen — the impulse of the living to try to read in dead eyes the answer to the Question.
she is born in the breath of a cloud — Patrick Ness, The Crane Wife
But as the girl timidly accosted him, he gave a convulsive movement and saved hisrespectability by a vigorous side-step. — Stephen Crane, Maggie: A Girl of the Streets & Other Stories
Daja: "He and Rosethorn work together? They hate each other." Lark: "I didn't say they liked it.- Daja and Lark referrin — Tamora Pierce, Briar's Book
Habits are safer than rules — you don't have to watch them. And you don't have to keep them either. They keep you.
The fact that you can't see how much you're worth makes you worth so much more." She opened her mouth once, her brow bun — Shelly Crane, The Other Side Of Gravity
Coincidences undeniably imply meaning.I am rereading Hart Crane.I notice the dateOn which he stepped off that boatWas Ap — David Markson, Collected Poems
He began as a minor imitator of Fitzgerald, wrote a novel in the late twenties which won a prize, became dissatisfied wi — Barry N. Malzberg, The Fantastic Stories of Cornell Woolrich
What do you want to trust me with tonight?" A sigh escaped forcefully, waving the white flag that I was a melted, scorch — Shelly Crane, Wide Spaces
The seasonal urge is strong in poets. Milton wrote chiefly in winter. Keats looked for spring to wake him up (as it did — Helen Bevington, When Found, Make a Verse of
It was wrong to do this," said the angel."You should live like a flower,Holding malice like a puppy,Waging war like a la — Stephen Crane, Complete Poems of Stephen Crane
It is perhaps, plausible that a man in this situation, impressed with the unconcern of the universe, should see the innu — Stephen Crane, The Open Boat
I do not know…who turned me, your Grace.”His downcast gaze said it all: How terribly sad.For she had known all her life — S.C. Parris, The Two Swords
Make no excuses for the devils that will not excuse you of their burdens, Miss Crane." - Darien Nicodemeus; Chapter Sixt — S.C. Parris, The Immortal's Guide
The injured captain, lying in the bow, was at this time buried in that profound dejection and indifference which comes, — Stephen Crane
I want to give you back your first kiss, the one that jerk stole fromyou. And I want it to be something that even a coma — Shelly Crane, Wide Awake
Love finds you in the strangest places, and hope clings to us in the nooks and crannies we never think to look. — Shelly Crane, Wide Spaces