Nathalia Crane - Sign Quotes

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The very serpents bite their tails; the bees forget to sting,
For a language so celestial setteth up a wondering. And the touch of absent mindedness is more than any line,
Since direction counts for nothing when the gods set up a sign.

Nathalia Crane

And the eyes of all look upward seeing sign-word drawing nigh,
The stony wings of Egypt coming back across the sky; We hear the clinking tamborine of Miriam anew;
We believe in every miracle since Lindbergh flew the blue — The wonder of the long draw when the bowstring is a thread —
The beauty of a courage that can raise the wings of lead.

Nathalia Crane

The sign work of the Orient it runneth up and down;
The Talmud stalks from right to left, a rabbi in a gown; The Roman rolls from left to right from Maytime unto May;
But the gods shake up their symbols in an absent-minded way. Their language runs to circles like the language of the eyes,
Emphasised by strange dilations with little panting sighs.

Nathalia Crane