| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 15263 |
| QUOTATION: | Scatter these well-meant idioms
Into the smoky spring that fills
The suburbs, where they will be lost.
They are no trophies of the sun. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Hart Crane (1899–1932), U.S. poet. Praise for an Urn (l. 21–24). . .
Norton Anthology of Modern Poetry, The. Richard Ellmann and Robert O’Clair, eds. (2d ed., 1988) W. W. Norton & Company. |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia. |
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| | | The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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