The Broken Tower2011

Hart Crane:
But the important thing is how do we get that into poetry? All of it. Jazz, Woolworth's, typewriters, buildings, freeways. Everything. It's, it's popping up from - bridges and, and tunnels, you know, from here to San Francisco. How do you get *that* into poetry?

Gorham Munson:
Eliot did it.

Hart Crane:
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. But *Rabbi Crane* [pointing to self, chuckling] - Rabbi Crane will do it with a *positive* affirmation. It's not enough to join a bunch of ape-neck sweenies saying "life is sh*t." We all know life is a dance of death, but you can still make something out of it. You can do something with it.