Date: 2003

"Believe the fallen leaf / from one world floats there, / in another, tawny star on the black water, / the soul's cradle, / even when he must pause / to rest his racing heart, / & cannot see it?"

— Spaar, Lisa Russ

Date: 2004

"Those final sounds, however, are nothing like the wind moving through the vacancy of a mind."

— Rankine, Claudia (b. 1963)

Date: 2005

"When we get rid of all the clutter in the mind, the illusions, delusions we've lived with so long, it makes room for new concepts, different ways of looking at ourselves and the world around us."

— Rogers, Barb

Date: 2005

"The mind is like an umbrella."

— Rogers, Barb

Date: 2006

"Evacuate your mind of clutter now."

— Wetzsteon, Rachel

Date: 2006

"I do my best, squeezing the static and / the agony into a straight flat line, / but soon it soars and dips until my mind's / activity looks (you can take the girl...) / uncannily like the Manhattan skyline."

— Wetzsteon, Rachel

Date: 2006

"I'm watching them all right, unruly dots / I not only can't part from but can't help / transforming into restless bodies -- they're / no sooner being thought than sprouting limbs, / no longer motionless but striding proudly, / beautiful mental jukeboxes that play / their litanies of joy and woe ...

— Wetzsteon, Rachel

Date: October 5th, 2007

"I didn't like looking at people when I did it, like those tribes afraid part of their soul will peel away if someone takes a picture of them."

— Packer, ZZ (b. 1973)

Date: 2009

"This librarian told me that your mind works like a computer, or maybe an old card file."

— Chideya, Farai (b. 1969)

Date: December 13, 2010

"Hospital vigils take place in slow-time, during which the mind floats free, like a frail balloon drifting into the sky."

— Oates, Joyce Carol (b. 1938)