#Americans #Modernism
This is a slight stiff dance to a waking baby whose arms have been lying curled back above his head upon the pillow, making a flower—the eyes closed. Dead to the world! Waking is a...
I must tell you this young tree whose round and firm trunk between the wet pavement and the gutter
When the snow falls the flakes spi… that concerns them most intimately two and two to make a dance the mind dances with itself, taking you by the hand,
It is cold. The white moon is up among her scattered stars— like the bare thighs of the Police Sergeant’s wife—among her five children . . .
Lady of dusk-wood fastnesses, Thou art my Lady. I have known the crisp, splinterin… White, slender through green sapli… I have lain by thee on the brown f…
The living quality of the man’s mind stands out and its covert assertions for art, art, art!
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…
What have I to say to you When we shall meet? Yet— I lie here thinking of you. The stain of love
When over the flowery, sharp pastu… edge, unseen, the salt ocean lifts its form—chicory and daisies tied, released, seem hardly flower… but color and the movement—or the…
Men with picked voices chant the n… of cities in a huge gallery: promi… that pull through descending stair… to a deep rumbling. The rubbing feet
Leaves are graygreen, the glass broken, bright green.
I have discovered that most of the beauties of travel are due to the strange hours we keep to see t… the domes of the Church of the Paulist Fathers in Weehawken
This horrible but superb painting the parable of the blind without a red in the composition shows a group of beggars leading
O’eh’lee! La’la! Donna! Donna! Blue is the sky of Palermo; Blue is the little bay; And dost thou remember the orange…
The half-stripped trees struck by a wind together, bending all, the leaves flutter drily and refuse to let go