Date: 1963
"After that--in spite of the Girl Scouts and the piano lessons and the water-color lessons and the dancing lessons and the sailing camp, all of which my mother scrimped to give me, and college, with crewing in the mist before breakfast and blackbottom pies and the little new firecrackers of ideas...
preview | full record— Plath, Sylvia (1932-1963)
Date: 1963
"I tried to think what I had loved knives for, but my mind slipped from the noose of the thought and swung, like a bird, in the center of empty air."
preview | full record— Plath, Sylvia (1932-1963)
Date: 1963
"Your mind now, mouldering like wedding-cake / heavy with useless experience, rich / with suspicion, rumor, fantasy, / crumbling to pieces under the knife-edge / of mere fact."
preview | full record— Rich, Adrienne (1929-2012)
Date: 1963
"Delicious recollections / float like perfume through the memory."
preview | full record— Rich, Adrienne (1929-2012)
Date: November 11, 1967
"The answer is yes, but there is nothing wrong with having an oblique heart, it is a lighthouse, a compass, wisdom, sharp instinct, experience of death, the power to divine a disquieting but blissful lack of adjustment, because I am discovering that my own maladjustment stems from my origins."
preview | full record— Lispector, Clarice (1920-1977)
Date: 1970
"God, what a muck-heap my mind is, thought Tallis."
preview | full record— Murdoch, Iris (191-1999)
Date: 1981
"What's my head but a rat's nest / of dubious texts?"
preview | full record— Harwood, Gwen (1920-1995)
Date: March 11, 1982
''The mind is like a parachute -- it only functions when it's open."
preview | full record— Duncan, Amy
Date: 1988
"My rank aroma was the perfume my soul exuded, devotion's air."
preview | full record— Erdrich, Louise (b. 1954)
Date: 1995
"Soul is the place, / stretched like a surface of millstone grit between body and mind, / where such necessity grinds itself out"
preview | full record— Carson, Anne (b. 1951)