By: Olaf Stapledon

“Justifying the cosmic enterprise for ever…”

By: Herbert Read

“shade yourself / against electric signs…”

By: Leland S. Copeland

“Smaller you grew and dimmer yet / As eons dawned and millennia set…”

By: Joaquín Pasos

“This is Norway / possessed of metal trees…”

By: H.D.

“We await great events. / We are spread through this earth.”

By: Georgia Douglas Johnson

“The world has its motion, all things pass away…”

By: William Empson

“Each point in one direction ends the world.”

By: Hirato Renkichi

“A GIANT MAGNETIC ENERGY SWALLOWED THEM WHOLE”

By: Lola Ridge

“A thin black piston flying, / One with her machine.”

By: Pierre Drieu de La Rochelle

“The lines of the sphere are sensitive…”

By: John Peale Bishop

“We did not know the end was coming: nor why / It came…”

By: Zhimo Xu

“All its trust in two narrow lines, some kind of rails…”

By: Georg Heym

“Comets with their fiery trails / Creep threateningly about…”

By: Amy Lowell

“Careening and circling,/Over the dying/Of England.”

By: Walter Everette Hawkins

“I break the limbs of idols / And smash the traditions of men.”