“There are no stars to-night
But those of memory.
Yet how much room for memory there is
In the loose girdle of soft rain.”

—  Hart Crane

My Grandmother's Love Letters (l. 1-4). In The Norton Anthology of Modern Poetry, by Richard Ellmann and Robert O'Clair (1988)

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American writer 1899–1932

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