1914 · Skopia

Showing 21 works across all media from 1914

Mystery and Melancholy of a Street

Cityscape · Surrealism

Mystery and Melancholy of a Street

Giorgio de Chirico

1914 · Private collection

A girl rolls a hoop down an arcaded street toward a shadow coming around the corner, in light that belongs to no hour.

★ 8.3

The Song of Love

Allegorical painting · Surrealism

The Song of Love

Giorgio de Chirico

1914 · Museum of Modern Art, New York City

A marble head, a red rubber glove and a green ball hang together on a wall, and a train goes by in the distance.

★ 7.8

Kokoro

1914 · 248 pages

Modern Japanese literature turns on this book. A student attaches himself to a withdrawn man he calls Sensei, and the letter that finally explains him confesses a betrayal that has never healed.

★ 7.0

My center is giving way, my right is retreating, situation excellent, I am attacking.

1914

★ 6.0

Fiction · Political fiction

The Ragged-Trousered Philanthropists

Robert Tressell

1914 · 624 pages

The philanthropists of the title are house painters who give their labor away and defend the system that ruins them. Owen, the socialist, cuts up bread to demonstrate the money trick.

★ 5.7

My body was like a harp and her words and gestures were like fingers running upon the wires.

Araby · 1914

★ 5.4

Home is the place where, when you have to go there, They have to take you in.

1914

★ 5.2

Poem · War poetry

If I should die, think only this of me: That there's some corner of a foreign field That is for ever England.

The Soldier · 1914

★ 5.1

The lamps are going out all over Europe; we shall not see them lit again in our lifetime.

Sir Edward Grey

1914

★ 5.1

The only freedom the gods grant us Is this: to submit Of our own free will to their sovereignty We should do just that, Since only in the illusion of freedom Does freedom exist.

Fernando Pessoa

1914

★ 5.0

He looked down the slope and, at the base, in the shadow of the wall of the Park, he saw some human figures lying. Those venal and furtive loves filled him with despair. He gnawed the rectitude of his life; he felt that he had been outcast from life's feast.

Dubliners · 1914

★ 4.3

To sin by silence when we should protest makes cowards out of men.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

1914

★ 3.6

The rich are the scum of the earth in every country.

G.K. Chesterton

1914

★ 3.6

I gave my life for freedom-This I know: For those who bade me fight had told me so.

William Norman Ewer

1914

★ 3.5

The sanitary and mechanical age we are now entering makes up for the mercy it grants to our sense of smell by the ferocity with which it assails our sense of hearing.

Impressions and Comments · 1914

★ 3.4

The Memphis BluesVictor Military Band

Ragtime · Blues

The Memphis Blues

Victor Military Band

1914

Handy sold the rights and complained bitterly ever after; this July 1914 recording entered the National Recording Registry.

★ 2.9

In science the credit goes to the man who convinces the world, not to the man to whom the idea first occurs.

1914

★ 1.8

Autobiography and memoir

Justice and judgment lie often a world apart.

Emmeline Pankhurst

1914

★ 1.2

Speech · Political speech

The United States must be neutral in fact as well as in name.

1914

★ 1.2

Autobiography and memoir

We are here not because we are law-breakers. We are here in our efforts to become law-makers.

Emmeline Pankhurst

1914

★ 1.1

In order to approach the spiritual in art, one employs reality as little as possible... This explains logically why primary forms are employed. Since these forms are abstract, an abstract art comes into being.

1914

★ 0.9