By: Stephanie Burt

“Boeing 757s, Airbus 320s, an Embraer 190”

By: Stephanie Burt

“Miami”

By: Thomas Thornely

Thy last dread secret, Nature! keep…

By: Archibald MacLeish

Let them be silent in their particles.

By: Thomas Hardy

“Darwin’s theories were a snare”

By: Vachel Lindsay

Lord, give us Darwin’s eyes!

By: George Sterling

So dreamt thy sons on worlds destroyed…

By: H.L. Mencken

No joy, no whirling numbness of the brain…

By: D.H. Lawrence

“where the electron behaves and misbehaves as it will…”

By: William E. Henley

“Handle her valves, / Her essentials, her secrets…”

By: Ford Madox Ford

“Hidden in the millionth of a cell…”

By: Stephen Spender

Bare like nude giant girls that have no secret.

By: Randolph Bourne

“We living bodies deaden-deaden-deaden…”

By: Rudyard Kipling

“We will serve you four and twenty hours a day!”

By: Stephanie Burt

One of the great sidekicks in English literary history.