By: Velimir Khlebnikov

“Let Lobachevsky’s curves descend / as ornaments over all the city…”

By: James T. Franklin

“Familiar he is with science, / And knoweth that light by seconds leap…”

By: Bert Leston Taylor

“My thoughts float out across the cosmic reaches / To where Canopus swims.”

By: Rainer Maria Rilke

“now the machines demand / their celebration.”

By: Aleksei Kruchenykh

“It’s an armored fortress / An excavator of crowds. / The Air-Strike!”

By: Louis Zukofsky

“And in Haiti / Mars / Bloody / Tinkered with the other
Stars.”

By: Mina Loy

“One elastic tentacle of intuition / To quiver among the stars…”

By: James T. Franklin

“Plain did seem the merry race / Of myriad planets thrown in space…”

By: G.K. Chesterton

“What poet-race / Shot such cyclopean arches at the stars?”

By: Robinson Jeffers

“We have built the great cities; now / There is no escape…”

By: Ambrose Bierce

“One thousand years I slept beneath the sod…”

By: Don Marquis

“A fierce unrest seethes at the core Of all existing things…”

By: Lola Ridge

“They think they have tamed you, workers — / Beaten you to a tool”

By: Leslie Pinckney Hill

“Faint not, O brothers, if the forward way / Must lie through fire and famine, death and blood.”

By: Hirato Renkichi

“Compound eyes / Declare war towards darkness…”