It handles the materials of modern life directly, not in symbols.
It responds to the roar of factories and trains.
The poet is to be “an active lyric,” representing his age.
The poet’s vision is the cinematograph of modern life with its continual mechanical transfiguration.
It is not sentimental.
To art for art’s sake, and art for truth’s sake, it opposes art for life’s sake.
It discards personal sensation; it is not ashamed to be “cosmic.”
The evolution of poetry is to be as rapid and terrible henceforth as material evolution.
It will sing the new man, the man-machine, the multiplied man, the Man-Bird.
It exalts motion and repudiates equilibrium.