Date: 1791, 1794
"My daily employment is to think of you and weep, to pray for your happiness and deplore my own folly: my nights are scarce more happy, for if by chance I close my weary eyes, and hope some small forgetfulness of sorrow, some little time to pass in sweet oblivion, fancy, still waking, wafts me ho...
preview | full record— Rowson, Susanna (1762-1828)
Date: 1922
"I plucked my soul out of its secret place, / And held it to the mirror of my eye, / To see it like a star against the sky, / A twitching body quivering in space, / A spark of passion shining on my face."
preview | full record— McKay, Claude (1889-1948)
Date: 1963
"Delicious recollections / float like perfume through the memory."
preview | full record— Rich, Adrienne (1929-2012)
Date: 1991
"You soar off to another world, deep in your mind, / But people seem to take that, as being unkind."
preview | full record— Tribe Called Quest [Q-Tip, Phife Dawg, Ali Shaheed Muhammad, Jarobi White]
Date: 1999
"A soul was like a worm in an apple, my mother told me."
preview | full record— Offill, Jenny (b. 1968)
Date: May 12, 2014
"For a study published in Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, they imaged the brains of meditators while they went through four basic mental movements: focusing on a chosen target, noticing that their minds had wandered, bringing their minds back to the target, and sustaining their focus there."
preview | full record— Goleman, Daniel (b. 1946)
Date: August, 2014
"A universe of information swirled around in his brain."
preview | full record— Thomas, Matthew
Date: March 18, 2017
"So many secrets, so many plots, so many shards of gossip swirl in his head, there seems to be no room for reality."
preview | full record— Dowd, Maureen (b. January 14, 1952)
Date: May 12, 2018
"Our brains are so scrambled that it's starting to make sense that none of it makes sense."
preview | full record— Dowd, Maureen (b. January 14, 1952)
Date: February 21, 2019
"She opened the portal, and the mind met her more than halfway."
preview | full record— Lockwood, Patricia