By: Louis MacNeice

“We shall go down like palaeolithic man / Before some new Ice Age…”

By: Blaise Cendrars

“The train falls back on all its wheels…”

By: T. S. Eliot

“What is that sound high in the air…”

By: Harriet Monroe

“Those infinite energies / Our little earth just gnaws at through the ether…”

By: C. Day Lewis

“They bruise / Their eyes against a void…”

By: Valery Bryusov

“An intuition helps unmask enigmas…”

By: Angela Morgan

“The light elusive, springing from the dark…”

By: Robinson Jeffers

“The oceans would explode into invisible steam, / The ships and the great whales fall through them…”

By: Robert Frost

“They cannot scare me with their empty spaces / Between stars…”

By: Anna Akhmatova

“New and strange constellations / Shine forth in the pale summer skies…”

By: Archibald MacLeish

“How shall we bury all / These queer-shaped people?”

By: Robinson Jeffers

“Science… has fallen from hope to confusion”

By: John Davidson

“The uncontrolled / Imagination of the Universe…”

By: Vladimir Mayakovsky

“Where the cities / Are hung…”

By: Andrey Bely

“I am treading / Cold space — the vast void — the dim ether. “