By: Anna Akhmatova

“New and strange constellations / Shine forth in the pale summer skies…”

By: Archibald MacLeish

“How shall we bury all / These queer-shaped people?”

By: Robinson Jeffers

“Science… has fallen from hope to confusion”

By: John Davidson

“The uncontrolled / Imagination of the Universe…”

By: Vladimir Mayakovsky

“Where the cities / Are hung…”

By: Andrey Bely

“I am treading / Cold space — the vast void — the dim ether.”

By: J. Lewis Milligan

“The Super-man has come, the Gods are dead!”

By: Harriet Monroe

“Voices come / That soft in the ear call…”

By: Alexander Blok

“Thy vast orbits mock the eye.”

By: Sara Teasdale

“Atoms as old as stars, / Mutation on mutation…”

By: Osbert Sitwell

“An evil lichen that proclaims world doom…”

By: Vicente Huidobro

“It’s the wind / Of Europe / The electric wind”

By: R.S. Thomas

“Nodes and molecules / pushing against molecules / and nodes…”

By: C. Day Lewis

“To-day I lie down with finite, / To-morrow with infinite.”

By: Eve Brodlique Summers

“Ypres and Lens, beneath the shining sky…”