Date: 1941, 1942
"I think that his [the poet's] function is to make his imagination theirs and that he fulfills himself only as he sees his imagination become the light in the minds of others."
preview | full record— Stevens, Wallace (1879-1955)
Date: 1942
"The squirming facts exceed the squamous mind, / If one may say so."
preview | full record— Stevens, Wallace (1879-1955)
Date: December, 1942
"Do we act or do we think / when years roll round on a barber's pole, / when what is red is white is pink, / which is body which is soul?"
preview | full record— Smith, William Jay (1918-2015)
Date: 1944; 2018
"My desk is the monument to my mind, and by the appearance of it, my mind must have intimate contact with garbage collectors."
preview | full record— O'Connor, Flannery (1925-1964)
Date: 1944; 2018
"It is pleasanter to be five years older and beautiful than status quo and under par, but I must force my loose mind into its overalls and get going."
preview | full record— O'Connor, Flannery (1925-1964)
Date: 1945
"The mob within the heart / Police cannot suppress / The riot given at the first / Is authorized as peace."
preview | full record— Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886)