This hard work will always be done by one kind of man; not by scheming speculators, nor by soldiers, nor professors, nor readers o...f Tennyson; but by men of endurance--deep-chested, long- winded, tough, slow and sure, and timely.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We will sing of great crowds excited by work, by pleasure, and by riot; we will sing of the multicolored, polyphonic tides of revo...lution in the modern capitals; we will sing of the vibrant nightly fervour of arsenals and shipyards blazing with violent electric moons; greedy railway stations that devour smoke-plumed serpents; factories hung on clouds by the crooked lines of their smoke; bridges that stride the rivers like giant gymnasts, flashing in the sun with a glitter of knives; adventurous steamers that sniff the horizons; deep-chested locomotives whose wheels paw the tracks like the hooves of enormous steel horses bridled by tubing; and the sleek flight of planes whose propellers chatter in the wind like banners and seem to cheer like an enthusiastic crowd.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The salt person and blasted place I furnish with the meat of a fable;... If the dead starve, their stomachs turn to tumble An upright man in the antipodes Or spray-based and rock-chested sea: Over the past table I repeat this present grace.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »