Date: 1911
"You are no longer the slave of those successive atoms into which sleep divides you."
preview | full record— Lewis, Edwin Herbert (1866-1938)
Date: 1911
"Sensations rain in on you as in a dream, but you suppress all but what are useful for your conscious purpose."
preview | full record— Lewis, Edwin Herbert (1866-1938)
Date: 1911
"A friend may almost literally pour out his soul into our waiting ears, or we may almost literally read it in his eyes."
preview | full record— Lewis, Edwin Herbert (1866-1938)
Date: 1912
"Famous garden where the passion, / Bursting first disclosed the morn / Whose effulgent, beaming glory / Cleft old Chaos, brain and spine; / Lit up incense burning shrine, / In the heart of man for Eve."
preview | full record— Beadle, Samuel Alfred (1857-1932)
Date: 1912
"Could we deftly lift the curtain / Which the cunning serpent draws, / Like the veil of night about us, / We would find that paradise, / Like a flower in winter, lies / 'Neath the stubbles of our souls."
preview | full record— Beadle, Samuel Alfred (1857-1932)
Date: 1912
"Who does not harbor in his breast / The fruitage of forbidden things / Culled from beauty's lips and heart, / And folded in between the leaves / Of memory's roll of reveries."
preview | full record— Beadle, Samuel Alfred (1857-1932)
Date: December, 1917
"I was of three minds, / Like a tree / In which there are three blackbirds."
preview | full record— Stevens, Wallace (1879-1955)
Date: 1918
"He had a mind so fine that no idea could violate it."
preview | full record— Eliot, T. S. (1888-1965)
Date: 1918
"Mr. Chesterton's brain swarms with ideas; I see no evidence that it thinks."
preview | full record— Eliot, T. S. (1888-1965)
Date: 1921
"Locked doors in his mind were swinging wide, revealing forgotten sumptuous halls of his imagination."
preview | full record— John Dos Passos (1896-1970)