Date: 1820
"How to entangle, trammel up and snare / Your soul in mine, and labyrinth you there / Like the hid scent in an unbudded rose?"
preview | full record— Keats, John (1795-1821)
Date: 1850
"My mind was at that time / A parti-coloured show of grave and gay, / Solid and light, short-sighted and profound; / Of inconsiderate habits and sedate, / Consorting in one mansion unreproved. "
preview | full record— Wordsworth, William (1770-1850)
Date: 1892
"One need not be a chamber to be haunted, / One need not be a house; / The brainĀ has corridors surpassing / Material place."
preview | full record— Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886)
Date: 1940
"The provinces of his body revolted, / The squares of his mind were empty, / Silence invaded the suburbs, / The current of his feeling failed; he became his admirers."
preview | full record— Auden, W. H. (1907-1973)
Date: 1955
"The courtyards of the inner heart go round / And round, so sure are they / Where they will end; the brick / Convolutions enter and extend / The individual life, and come to end."
preview | full record— Miles, Josephine (1911-1985)
Date: 2014
"You can't put the past behind you. It's buried in you; it's turned your flesh into its own cupboard. Not everything remembered is useful but it all comes from the world to be stored in you."
preview | full record— Rankine, Claudia (b. 1963)
Date: 2014
"The days of our childhood together were steep steps into a collapsing mind."
preview | full record— Rankine, Claudia (b. 1963)