Adelaide Crapsey quotes
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“Listen ... With faint dry sound, Like steps of passing ghosts, The leaves, frost-crisp'd, break free from the trees And fall.”
-- Adelaide CrapseySource : Adelaide Crapsey, “November Night”
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“These be Three silent things: The Falling snow. . . the hour Before the dawn. . . the mouth of one Just dead.”
-- Adelaide CrapseySource : "Cinquain: Triad" l. 1 (1915)
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“Sun and wind and beat of sea, Great lands stretching endlessly... Where be bonds to bind the free? All the world was made for me!”
-- Adelaide CrapseySource : Adelaide Crapsey, “Adventure”
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“My object to venture the suggestion that an important application of phonetics to metrical problems lies in the study of phonetic word-structure.”
-- Adelaide CrapseySource : Adelaide Crapsey (1918). “A Study in English Metrics”
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“The oldOld winds that blewWhen chaos was, what doThey tell the clattered trees that IShould weep?”
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“I knowNot these my handsAnd yet I think there wasA woman like me once had handsLike these.”
-- Adelaide CrapseySource : Adelaide Crapsey, “Amaze”
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Source : A. E. Waite (2012). “The Pictorial Key to the Tarot”, p.208, Courier Corporation
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“I am putting together a secular bible. My Genesis is when the apple falls on Newton's head.”
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Source : "Cartographer of Word Galaxies". Interview with Susan Lerner, logger.believermag.com. September 24, 2013.
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Source : "Remarks by Aaron Sorkin ’83 at Syracuse University’s 158th Commencement and the SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry’s 115th Commencement". Aaron Sorkin's Commencement address at Syracuse University in New York, news.syr.edu. May 13, 2012.
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Source : A. E. Waite (2012). “The Pictorial Key to the Tarot”, p.46, Courier Corporation
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“I look good. I feel good and not to sound conceited I sound great.”
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