Date: 1905
"I forget of whom it was said, that his mind resembled the trunk of an elephant, which can pick up straws and tear up trees by the roots."
preview | full record— Carnegie, Andrew (1835-1919)
Date: 1908
"So her mind is like a wonderful bird-cage, filled with nightingales, which, like all captive nightingales, feed upon hearts—upon her heart."
preview | full record— Gregorio Martinez Sierra (1881-1947)
Date: 1911
"Sleep scatters you; sensations come storming along into the dreamer's mind, and he is a prey to each in turn."
preview | full record— Lewis, Edwin Herbert (1866-1938)
Date: 1914
"I think with all his purity Emerson had within him the turbid stream of passion and desire; for all his hard-cut granite features he knew the instincts of the weakling and the slave; and for all his sweetness, he had the tiger and the jackal in his soul."
preview | full record— de Cleyre, Voltairine (1866-1912)