Adelaide Crapsey Quotes

Adelaide Crapsey shares haunting, lyrical snapshots of wind, snow, and silent moments.

7 quotes

1. The old Old winds that blew When chaos was, what do They tell the clattered trees that I Should weep?

2. These be Three silent things: The falling snow...the hour Before the dawn...the mouth of one Just dead.

3. Listen. With faint dry sound, Like steps of passing ghosts, The leaves, frost-crisp'd, break from the trees And fall.

4. I know Not these my hands And yet I think there was A woman like me once had hands Like these.

5. Artists give us not conclusions but evidence.

6. My object to venture the suggestion that an important application of phonetics to metrical problems lies in the study of phonetic word-structure.

7. 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!