Quotes From "The Cubist Poets In Paris: An Anthology" By Raymond Radiguet

People are jostling at the gates of heaven or Department stores Words are bumping into each other(" Poem") Raymond Radiguet

...And we left the lightfor the night of the street Pierre AlbertBirot

ZENITHNOON beats outon its solar anvilthe rays of light Sonia Delaunay

An unknown force is calling me Perhaps the voice of that star perched on the last height Perhaps the desire to see the spaces that conceal Europe Unknown

Midnight"The hours glide Like drops of water on a window pane Midnight silence Fear unrolls in the air And the wind hides at the bottom of the well OH It's a leaf We think the earth is going to end Time stirs in the shadow Everyone is asleep A SIGH Inside the house someone has just died Vicente Huidobro

In the black chaos where the seas and the skies become confused let the projectors blow their white trumpets of silence(" Roundness") Unknown

Who is that blond child laughing as he runs after his colored marbles? [my marbles] It's me And who is the poet writing this poem? That blond child who laughed as he ran after his colored marbles Pierre AlbertBirot

[poems are] crystals deposited after the effervescent contact of the spirit with reality.(cristaux deposes apres l'effervescent contact de l'esprit avec la realite) Pierre Reverdy

POSTNot a head stands out A finger rises Then it is the voice that one knows A signal a brief note A man leaves Up above a cloud that passes by No one goes in And the night keeps its secret Pierre Reverdy

New Song"For You, ManuelitaInside the HorizonSOMEONE WAS SINGING The voice Is not known WHERE DOES IT COME FROM Among the branches No one is to be seen The moon itself was an ear And one hears no sound However a star unnailed Has fallen into the pond THE HORIZON HAS CLOSED UP And there is no exit Vicente Huidobro

Rain"Oh amiable rain Washer of treesand roofswho has prepared themforthe pink rayof evening(" Poems") Charlotte Gardelle

Morning"SUNThat awakens ParisThe highest poplar on the bank On The Eiffel TowerA tricolored cock Sings to the flapping of his wingsand several feathers fall As it resumes its course The Seine looks between the bridges For her old route And the Obelisk That has forgotten the Egyptian words Has not blossomed this year S U N Vicente Huidobro

ADIEUThe glimmer farther away than the head The heart-skip On the slope where the air rolls its voice The spokes of the wheel the sun in the rut At the crossroads near the embankment a prayer Some words that are not heard Nearer the sky And on its steps the last square of light(" Adieu") Pierre Reverdy

Oh you dear companions Electric bells of the stations song of the reapers Butcher's sleigh regiment of unnumbered streets Cavalry of bridges nights livid with alcohol The cities I've seen lived like mad women( The Voyager) Pierre AlbertBirot

Is it a world in the makingthat turns as it whistles to the depths of my being It is burning Suppose it were to appear A bleeding rosary at the windowa sun setting on the marshlands(" Silver Clasp") Unknown

A bouquet yellow like remorse Hurts my view The cage The wheel The vile ennui of all mankind And no one no one to break my chains! (" Outcries") Unknown

The man slips along the stoically congealed houses Perpendicular like them A moving ornament Burning fiction His fragility contradicts the duration of his torments Unknown

The City is free of sin The snow has given it absolution A man who slips A horse that falls Oh no, the city is in a nightgown Pierre AlbertBirot

Do you remember the long orphanage of the train stations We crossed cities that turn-tabled all day And vomited at night the sunshine of the day ("The Voyager") Pierre AlbertBirot

Eiffel Tower" To Robert DelaunayEiffel Tower Guitar of the sky Your wireless telegraphy Attracts words As a rosebush the bees During the night The Seine no longer flows Telescope or bugle E I F F E L TOWERAnd it's a hive of words Or an inkwell of honey At the bottom of dawn A spider with barbed-wire legs Was making its web of clouds My little boy To climb the Eiffel Tower You climb on a song Do re mi fa sol la ti do We are up on top A bird sings in the telegraph antennae It's the wind Of Europe The electric wind Over there The hats fly away They have wings but they don't sing Jacqueline Daughter of France What do you see up there The Seine is asleep Under the shadow of its bridges I see the Earth turning And I blow my bugle Toward all the seas On the path Of your perfume All the bees and the words go their way On the four horizons Who has not heard this song I AM THE QUEEN OF THE DAWN OF THE POLES I AM THE COMPASS THE ROSE OF THE WINDS THAT FADESEVERY FALLAND ALL FULL OF SNOW I DIE FROM THE DEATH OF THAT ROSE IN MY HEAD A BIRD SINGS ALL YEAR LONGThat's the way the Tower spoke to me one day Eiffel Tower Aviary of the world Sing SingChimes of ParisThe giant hanging in the midst of the void Is the poster of FranceThe day of Victory You will tell it to the stars . Vicente Huidobro