Date: 1892

"Futile the winds / To a heart in port,-- / Done with the compass, / Done with the chart."

— Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886)

Date: 1946

"Just as the ties recur beneath his train, these underlie / his rushing brain."

— Bishop, Elizabeth (1911-1979)

Date: 2011

"It's about letting go of the clench in your forehead and letting your heart steer."

— Nadzam, Bonnie

Date: May 20, 2013

"As this book began to veer astray, I felt that Lindemann's mind was like a sleek yacht built for exhilarating grace and speed but commandeered by moldy tyrants for mundane use as a sluggish freighter."

— Paglia, Camille (b. 1947)

Date: June 18, 2018

"Her brain was in overdrive."

— Wang, Weike

Date: 2018

"I'm doing fine / Trying to derail my one track mind."

— Dacus, Lucy (b. May 2, 1995)

Date: April 29, 2024

"Merleau-Ponty is a deep influence; one can feel him tumbling around in the back seat of much of Butler’s thinking."

— Parul Sehgal (b.1981)