Date: 1922
"The joy in your maturity at length, / The peace that filled my soul like cooling wine, / When you responded to my tender strength, / And pressed your heart exulting into mine."
preview | full record— McKay, Claude (1889-1948)
Date: 1922
"How shall I with such memories of you / In coarser forms of love fruition find? / No, I would rather like a ghost pursue / The fairy phantoms of my lonely mind."
preview | full record— McKay, Claude (1889-1948)
Date: 1923
"Her mind is like a sundial: It records only pleasantness."
preview | full record— Wilstach, Frank J.
Date: 1923
"It stamps its imprint upon the whole consciousness of man; his qualities and abilities are no longer an organic part of his personality, they are things which he can 'own' or 'dispose of' like the various objects of the external world."
preview | full record— Lukács, Georg [György] (1885-1971)
Date: 1924
"But circumstance cannot deepen or lighten the colour of a man’s mind; if we bring anything into the world it is the colour of our minds, and what is the colour of our minds but fate? and what is fate but character?"
preview | full record— Moore, George Augustus (1852-1933)
Date: 1931
"My Waxen heart, when near the Flame, / Yields to th' imprinted mould" but "hardens in the Cold"
preview | full record— Tickell, Thomas (1685-1740)
Date: 1936
"The monarch of the mind is a monkey wrench."
preview | full record— Miller, Henry (1891-1980)
Date: 1936
"The desires of the heart are as crooked as corkscrews."
preview | full record— Auden, W. H. (1907-1973)
Date: 1937
"Figure on her waxen mind / Images of life refin'd."
preview | full record— Philips, Ambrose (1674-1749)
Date: 1940
"The provinces of his body revolted, / The squares of his mind were empty, / Silence invaded the suburbs, / The current of his feeling failed; he became his admirers."
preview | full record— Auden, W. H. (1907-1973)