By: Hart Crane

“Down Wall, from girder into street noon leaks, / A rip-tooth of the sky’s acetylene…”

By: Countee Cullen

“She will be young / When your last cracked and quivering note is sung.”

By: Claude McKay

“Darkly I gaze into the days ahead…”

By: Conrad Aiken

“I ascend from darkness / And depart on the winds of space for I know not where…”

By: Blaise Cendrars

“Shit is said in all corners of the universe…”

By: Langston Hughes

“Tomorrow, / I’ll be at the table…”

By: Hirato Renkichi

“An animal of irritated electricity…”

By: Fenton Johnson

“I am tired of building up somebody else’s civilization.”

By: Olaf Stapledon

“Gas the stars are.”

By: Robinson Jeffers

“Their children will learn to hope for a Caesar.”

By: Leland S. Copeland

“Over the writhing, blazing sun, / And planets, half day, half night…”

By: George William Russell

“They shall sink under water, / They shall rise up again…”

By: Jerzy Jankowski

“You are in flames, flier / Brother of space and of the world.”

By: Stanley G. Weinbaum

“Has Mankind really lived in vain / After such aeon-bitter pain?”

By: Wallace Stevens

A dirty house in a gutted world…