1900 – 1960 CE
Breaking conventions with free verse, imagism, and the avant-garde.
"Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold"
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..."
At five in the afternoon. It was exactly five in the afternoon
— Federico Garcia Lorca
"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..."
How can we know the dancer from the dance?
"How can we know the dancer from the dance?"
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..."
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"
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams
"Tread softly because you tread on my dreams"
Green, how I want you green. Green wind. Green branches
"Green, how I want you green. Green wind. Green branches"
New York! I say to you: let black blood flow into your blood.
— Léopold Sédar Senghor
"New York! I say to you: let black blood flow into your blood."
Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf.
— Rabindranath Tagore
"Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf."
I, too, sing America.
— Langston Hughes
"I, too, sing America."
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