By: William Empson

“Weren’t strips of heart culture seen / Of late mating two periodicities?”

By: Eric Temple Bell

“Vast is the web and splendidly spun…”

By: Herbert Read

“Earth is machine and works to plan / Winnowing space and time”

By: Wallace Stevens

“They confine themselves / To right-angled triangles.”

By: Amy Lowell

“Z-z-z-z-z! That whine would pierce any covering.”

By: Hugh MacDiarmid

“Into the Pool o’ Space, to see / The Circles o’ Infinity.”

By: Aleksei Gastev

“Now we all start in at once to the minute.”

By: Lee Wilson Dodd

“Science has set free / The Energy of the Atom and harnessed it…”

By: D.H. Lawrence

“This is the machine incarnate…”

By: Hugh MacDiarmid

“Crowded / With dark incipient crystal growths…”

By: T. S. Eliot

“When the human engine waits / Like a taxi throbbing waiting…”

By: W. H. Auden

“He walks out briskly to infect a city…”

By: Gertrude Stein

“An arrangement in a system to pointing…”

By: Aleksei Kruchenykh

“I cooked my brain on an iron rod…”

By: Amy Lowell

“This man is like a mechanical toy…”