By: Max Jacob

“We’ll go down these rivers / In scarlet automata / Which belong to us!”

By: Joseph Conrad and Ford M. Hueffer

“Even in my own eyes I was merely a symbol…”

By: Frederick Soddy

“Though their intrigue left Euclid dumb / There’s now no need for rule of thumb.”

By: Naomi Mitchison

“They began singing ‘All through the night’ to steady themselves.”

By: Maurice N. Corbett

“Her long lost science, wealth and fame, / Dark Ethiopia will reclaim.”

By: Naomi Mitchison

“It’s a bad business being at the end of a period of civilization.”

By: Ford Madox Ford

“Street on street / Re-echoing to the feet / Of one sole, panic-stricken passenger…”

By: Joseph Conrad and Ford M. Hueffer

“That is the act of a great man.”

By: Naomi Mitchison

“We can’t afford to give up the Good.”

By: Walter Lowenfels

“Not even Mr. Ford shall lie / with a thousand piston rings / to feed his soul in heaven.”

By: Joseph Conrad and Ford M. Hueffer

She was something that one could not look at for glow.

By: Maximilian Voloshin

“In listless ether thou art horror’s face…”

By: Naomi Mitchison

“The numbers were put into a very beautiful silver jar…”

By: John Davidson

“Whether flame consume us comet-struck; / Or the earth’s crust fall in…”

By: Naomi Mitchison

“They had each drawn their number after the soup…”