Robert Delaunay Quote

The need for a new subject has inspired the poets, launching them onto a fresh path and bringing to their attention to poetry of la Tour [the Eiffel tower in Paris], which communicates mysteriously with the whole world. Rays of light, waves of symphonic sounds. Factories, bridges, iron structures, airships, the numberless gyrations of aeroplanes, windows seen by crowd simultaneously.

In: 'Les Soirées de Paris'; republished in 'Sturm' [German art-magazine edited by Walden]; Quoted in a document, published by Francastel op. cit. October 1913 11 bis p. 111