Date: 1814, 1816, 1896
"That none might Momus' wish'd-for window need, / Instinct's heav'n-taught the secret Soul to read-- / In tone, and turn, of human voice, to note, / How passions operate, and feelings float."
preview | full record— Woodhouse, James (bap. 1735, d. 1820)
Date: 1984
"At any given time, I'm aware that my mind and imagination are setting towards a particular compass point, that the whole edifice is preparing itself to lean in one way, like a great ramshackle barn."
preview | full record— Ballard, J. G. (1930-2009)
Date: August, 22, 2015
"Some philosophers claim that we know nothing of the external world outside our minds--nothing compared to what sways in our minds, in the long, twisting corridors of memory, the vast mental rooms with half-open doors, the ghosts chattering beneath the chandeliers of imagination."
preview | full record— Lightman, Alan (b. 1948)
Date: September 18, 2016
"In the red glare of the digital clock, my brain rattled its cage."
preview | full record— Kennedy, Pagan (b. 1963)
Date: 2017
Can I let go, and let your memory dance / In the ballroom of my mind, / Across the county line?"
preview | full record— Lana Del Rey [Elizabeth Woolridge Grant] (b. June 21, 1985)