Date: 1963
"What I didn't say was that each time I picked up a German dictionary or a German book, the very sight of those dense, black, barbed-wire letters made my mind shut like a clam."
preview | full record— Plath, Sylvia (1932-1963)
Date: 1963
"I stored the fact that there were real glasses in the corner of my mind the way a squirrel stores a nut."
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: 1984
"Each time the image of Deane's shattered head struck the rear wall of the office, Case was aware of another thought, something darker, hidden, that rolled away, diving like a fish, just beyond his reach."
preview | full record— Gibson, William (b. 1948)
Date: 1984
"Wintermute was hive mind, decision maker, effecting change in the world outside."
preview | full record— Gibson, William (b. 1948)
Date: 1986
"But it was only the heart's / racketing flywheel stuttering I want, I want // until exhaustion, until I was a guest in the yoke / of my body by the last margin of land where the river // mingles with the sea & far off daylight whitens, / a rending & yielding I must kneel before, as // bar...
preview | full record— Hull, Lynda (1954-1994)
Date: 1988
"Mind in its purest play is like some bat / That beats about in caverns all alone, / Contriving by a kind of senseless wit / Not to conclude against a wall of stone."
preview | full record— Wilbur, Richard (1921- )
Date: 1989
"When the cat hears the doorbell, this must be something going on, literally, in its head, not just in its furry little mind."
preview | full record— Nagel, Thomas (b. 1937)