Date: 1999

"A soul was like a worm in an apple, my mother told me."

— Offill, Jenny (b. 1968)

Date: 1999

"Who will mourn the passing of my heart? / Will its little droppings climb the pop chart?"

— Stephin Merritt (b. February 9, 1965)

Date: 2001

"The spirals around the galactic core, the coin of hair over the drain, the mind looking down into itself--each formed by a hole it just barely avoids falling into."

— Richardson, James (b. 1950)

Date: 2001

"The mind notices it exists when it gets in its own way, as two strands have to get in each others' way to make a knot."

— Richardson, James (b. 1950)

Date: 2001

"Pebble, question, soul: no one can see all sides at once, but there is no side that cannot be seen."

— Richardson, James (b. 1950)

Date: 2001

"Same even with those cherished early memories: we call up a sketch, fill in the blanks, and store it again, changed."

— Richardson, James (b. 1950)

Date: 2002

"There is the story of the mind's temperature neither cold nor celibate."

— Rich, Adrienne (1929-2012)

Date: 2003

"Believe the fallen leaf / from one world floats there, / in another, tawny star on the black water, / the soul's cradle, / even when he must pause / to rest his racing heart, / & cannot see it?"

— Spaar, Lisa Russ

Date: 2004

"Those final sounds, however, are nothing like the wind moving through the vacancy of a mind."

— Rankine, Claudia (b. 1963)

Date: 2006

"... moving from the minor mode it had been in throughout into the major, ending with a Picardy third cadence that, if it did not break Lew's heart exactly, did leave a fine crack that in time was to prove unmendable."

— Pynchon, Thomas (b. 1937)