#Americans #Modernism #XXCentury
In Brueghel’s great picture, The… the dancers go round, they go roun… around, the squeal and the blare a… tweedle of bagpipes, a bugle and f… tipping their bellies (round as th…
You sullen pig of a man you force me into the mud with your stinking ash-cart! Brother! —if we were rich
Why pretend to remember the weather two years back? Why not? Listen close then repeat after others what they have just said and win a reputation for vivacity. Oh feed upon petals o...
Gagarin says, in ecstasy, he could have gone on forever he floated at and sang
It was an icy day. We buried the cat, then took her box and set fire to it in the back yard.
Pour the wine bridegroom where before you the bride is enthroned her hair loose at her temples a head of ripe wheat is on
Upon the table in their bowl in violent disarray of yellow sprays, green spikes of leaves, red pointed petals and curled heads of blue
What have I to say to you When we shall meet? Yet— I lie here thinking of you. The stain of love
Of asphodel, that greeny flower, like a buttercup upon its branching stem– save that it’s green and wooden– I come, my sweet,
Paterson lies in the valley under… its spent waters forming the outli… lies on his right side, head near… of the waters filling his dreams!… his dreams walk about the city whe…
I will teach you my towns… how to perform a funeral… for you have it over a tr… of artists— unless one should scour t…
Her body is not so white as anemone petals nor so smooth ——nor so remote a thing. It is a field of the wild carrot taking the field by force; the grass
And yet one arrives somehow, finds himself loosening the hooks… her dress in a strange bedroom— feels the autumn
One leaves his leaves at home beomg a mullen and sends up a ligh… to peer from: I will have my way, yellow—A mast with a lantern, ten fifty, a hundred, smaller and smal…
ALL those treasures that lie in t… Mightier than the room of the star… All those treasures—I hold them i… Against the sides and the lid and… Crying that there is no sun come a…