Date: 1911
"I shall here have to change my metaphor a little to get the process in his mind. Suppose that instead of your curved pieces of wood you have a springy piece of steel of the same types of curvature as the wood. Now the state of tension or concentration of mind, if he is doing anything really good...
preview | full record— Hulme, T. E. (1883-1917)
Date: 1919
"Every man is an inexhaustible treasury of human personality. He can go on burrowing in it for an eternity if he have the desire--and a taste for introspection."
preview | full record— Cummings, Bruce Frederick [pseud. W. N. P. Barbellion] (1889-1919)