1900 – 1960 CE
Breaking conventions with free verse, imagism, and the avant-garde.
The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper
— W.B. Yeats
"The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow shar..."
How can we know the dancer from the dance?
"How can we know the dancer from the dance?"
Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of …
"Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire"
Green, how I want you green. Green wind. Green branches
— Federico Garcia Lorca
"Green, how I want you green. Green wind. Green branches"
The only things that the United States has given to the world are skyscrapers, jazz, and cocktails
"The only things that the United States has given to the world are skyscrapers, j..."
At five in the afternoon. It was exactly five in the afternoon
"At five in the afternoon. It was exactly five in the afternoon"
"To burn with desire and keep quiet about it is the greatest punishment we can br..."
"Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold"
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams
"Tread softly because you tread on my dreams"
But I warn you, I am living for the last time.
— Anna Akhmatova
"But I warn you, I am living for the last time."
My soul has grown deep like the rivers.
— Langston Hughes
"My soul has grown deep like the rivers."
Life for me ain't been no crystal stair.
"Life for me ain't been no crystal stair."
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