Inviolate Curve

Today I've been reading Hart Crane.

Crane opens his best known epic poem, "The Bridge" with an epigraph from the Book of Job.  It reads: "From going to and fro in the earth, and from walking up and down in it."

My favorite section of the poem comes from "Atlantis:"

"Through the bound cable strands, the arching path upward, veering with light, the flight of strings..."