I sent a carriage to bring you back But it went empty, and empty it returned.

-Child,Julia McWilliams
c.150  BC  'To My Wife1', collected in  A Book of Chinese Verse (translated by N L Smith and R H Kotewall).

Because I could not stop for Deathö He kindly stopped for meö The carriage held but just Ourselvesö And Immortality.

-Dickinson, Emily Elizabeth
c.1863  Complete Poems, no.712 (first published1890).

The thing depicted is less stationary, even the object in itself is less discernible than it used to be. A landscape broken into and traversed in a car or an express train losesindescriptivevaluebut gainsinsynthetic value; the window of the railroad carriage or the windshield of the car, combined withthespeed at whichyou aretraveling, have changed the familiar look of things. Modern man registers one hundred times more impressions than did an eighteenth century artist.

-Le¤  ger, Fernand
Quoted in D Cooper The Cubist Epoch (1970).