Date: 1946
"Icebergs behoove the soul / (both being self-made from elements least visible) / to see them so: fleshed, fair, erected indivisible."
preview | full record— Bishop, Elizabeth (1911-1979)
Date: 1946
"his brain appears, throned in "fantastic triumph," / and shines through his hat / with jeweled works at work at intermeshing crowns, / lamé with lights."
preview | full record— Bishop, Elizabeth (1911-1979)
Date: 1946
"Just as the ties recur beneath his train, these underlie / his rushing brain."
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Date: 1956
"'Can there be such stubbornness-- / A soul grown feverish, clutching its dead body-tree / Like a last storm-crossed leaf? "
preview | full record— Plath, Sylvia (1932-1963)
Date: 1956
"There sits no higher court / Than man's red heart."
preview | full record— Plath, Sylvia (1932-1963)
Date: 1957
"That lofty monarch, Monarch Mind, / Blue-blooded in coarse country reigned."
preview | full record— Plath, Sylvia (1932-1963)
Date: 1957
"'Really, your mind--' ... 'Like a sink, my nephew Raymond used to say,' Miss Marple agreed, nodding her head briskly. 'But I always told him, sinks are necesary domestic equipment and actually very hygienic.'"
preview | full record— Christie, Agatha (1890-1976)
Date: 1962
"Sandy screwed her eyes even smaller in the effort of seeing with her mind."
preview | full record— Spark, Muriel (1918-2006)
Date: 1962
"By the end of the year it happened that she had quite lost interest in the man himself, but was deeply absorbed in his mind, from which she extracted, among other things, his religion as a pith from a husk."
preview | full record— Spark, Muriel (1918-2006)