By: Stephen Vincent Benét

“That was the year the termites came to New York.”

By: C.S. Lewis

“Refrain? From what? All’s good enough.”

By: Max Beerbohm

“I never said they were ‘automata’
And ‘jackaclocks’…”

By: Archibald MacLeish

LIFE in the Perpendicular Decanter

By: Guillaume Apollinaire

“We said good-bye to an entire epoch”

By: William Butler Yeats

Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world.

By: Charles M. Doughty

“Cliff-brow of perfide Albion! so alight.”

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: William E. Henley

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

By: Ford Madox Ford

“Hidden in the millionth of a cell…”