Date: 1742
"No more shall trickling Sorrows roll / Thro' those dear Windows of his Soul."
preview | full record— Watts, Isaac (1674-1748)
Date: 1748, 1754
"Into this common Storehouse are likewise carried all those Moral Images or Forms which are derived from our Moral Faculties of Perception, and there they often undergo new Changes and Appearances, by being mixed and wrought up with the Images and Forms of Sensible or Natural Thing."
preview | full record— Fordyce, David (bap. 1711, d. 1751)
Date: 1766
"Curse not the king, yea, no not in thy thought, / Nor in thy closet curse the rich for ought"
preview | full record— Nicol, Alexander (bap. 1703)
Date: c. 1804-1811, 1818
"For every human heart has gates of brass & bars of adamant, / Which few dare unbar because dread Og & Anak guard the gates"
preview | full record— Blake, William (1757-1827)
Date: c. 1804-1811, 1818
"Terrific! and each mortal brain is walld and moated round / Within"
preview | full record— Blake, William (1757-1827)
Date: c. 1804-1811, 1818
Og & Anak watch in the brain which "is the Seat / Of Satan in its Webs; for in brain and heart and loins / Gates open behind Satans Seat to the City of Golgonooza / Which is the spiritual fourfold London, in the loins of Albion"
preview | full record— Blake, William (1757-1827)
Date: 1851
"But, in reading, our head is, however, really only the arena of some one else’s thoughts."
preview | full record— Schopenhauer, Arthur (1788-1860)
Date: January 12, 2017
"It opened a door in my mind, and behind that door I found the room where I wanted to spend the rest of my life."
preview | full record— Auster, Paul (b. February 3, 1947)
Date: September 7, 2017
"Like one of Yayoi Kusama's 'Infinity Rooms,' my consciousness, and that of the women I knew, gained new dimensions."
preview | full record— Adams, Carol J. (b. 1951)
Date: February 21, 2019
"Still, she stood there, and locked them in her mind for an hour."
preview | full record— Lockwood, Patricia