Date: 1826
A woman's "reason [may be] ship-wrecked upon her passion, and the hulk of her understanding lies thumping against the rock of her fury"
preview | full record— King, Thomas (1730-1805)
Date: 1868
"Over me the billows roll, / Swallow up my sinking soul."
preview | full record— Wesley, John and Charles
Date: April 26 1870
"You'd not believe by what strange roads / Thought travels, when your beauty goads / A man to-night to think of toads."
preview | full record— Rossetti, Dante Gabriel (1828-1882)
Date: 1888
"It matters not how strait the gate, / How charged with punishments the scroll, / I am the master of my fate: / I am the captain of my soul."
preview | full record— Henley, William Ernest (1849-1903)
Date: 1992
" He was dangerously obsessed, dangerously obsessed. And his thoughts, like a bobsleigh walled with ice, would not change their course until he had crashed or achieved his end."
preview | full record— Edward St. Aubyn (b. 1960)
Date: 1995, 2002
"However, as I said last night, we just ask for this because most of us consider ourselves as chauffeurs inside our bodies, which we own in the same way as we own a car. When it goes wrong we take it to the mechanic to fix it and we do not really identify with our body, just as we do not really i...
preview | full record— Watts, Alan (1915-1973)
Date: 2000
"It's the medium-sized thoughts that jump ship in an emergency."
preview | full record— Edward St. Aubyn (b. 1960)
Date: 2000
"My mind floated like the Bullet Train above its tracks, meeting no obstruction; everything clear."
preview | full record— Edward St. Aubyn (b. 1960)
Date: 2008
"Time rolls the back wheels of my mind / You helped me put the brakes on, 'cause you're kind."
preview | full record— Flynn, Johnny (March 14, 1983)
Date: 2009
"He steered his thoughts away from the subject of sex, his brain as nimble as an aircraft carrier."
preview | full record— Nicholls, David (b. 1966)