Elizabeth Smart - född i Canada 1913, död i Manchester UK 1986,:
"O the water of love that floods everything over,
so that there is nothing the eye sees that is not covered in.
There is no angle the world can assume which the love in my eye cannot
make into a symbol of love. Even the precise geometry of his hand, when I
gaze at it, dissolves me into water and I flow away in a flood of love.
Everything flows like the (Mersey) over a devastated earth, which drinks
unsurfeited, and augments the liquid with waterfalls of gratitude; which
raises a sound of praise to deafen all doubters forever; to burst their shamed
eardrums with the roar of proof,
louder than bombs or screams or the
inside ticking of remorse."
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The former singer of British band The Smiths, Morrissey has also talked of his love for Elizabeth Smart. References to 'By Grand Central Station' are littered throughout Smiths songs such as 'What She Said' 'Well I Wonder' and 'Shakespeare's Sister'.
By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept is a novel of prose poetry written by the Canadian author Elizabeth Smart and published in 1945. It is widely considered to be a classic of the genre.
In her preface to the 1966 reissue of the book, Brigid Brophy describes it as one of the half dozen masterpieces of poetic prose in the world. It details the author's passionate affair with the British poet George Barker and might be characterised as a hymn to love and its supremacy above all other emotions and worldly practicalities.