By: John Collings Squire

“They thought War was an evil thing, and fighting / Filthy at best.”

By: D.H. Lawrence

“When men are made in bottles / and emerge as squeaky globules…”

By: William Butler Yeats

“Once out of nature I shall never take / My bodily form from any natural thing…”

By: Julian Huxley

“Tired of the tales of marvellous invention”

By: W.J. Turner

“Copulation/Will be another lost art”

By: Nancy Cunard

“The fires flamed up and burnt the serried town…”

By: D.H. Lawrence

“Is our … leaking ark / at this moment scraping tardy Ararat?”

By: Robert Graves

“Very strange, un-Welsh, utterly peculiar/Things.”

By: D.H. Lawrence

“A dark bird falls from the sun.”

By: Louis Untermeyer

“It bears a deeper malice; lives to earn / Its master’s bread…”

By: Edith Södergran

Somewhere in space hangs my heart

By: Sara Teasdale

“Not one would mind, neither bird nor tree / If mankind perished utterly”

By: D.H. Lawrence

“Below the rock, the rock / is we know not what, / the hot wild core of the earth…”

By: Charles Buxton Going

“That which thou mad’st to drive, is driving thee.”

By: Aldous Huxley

“A million million spermatozoa…”