Date: 2002

"Of the friend watching him leave remembering / the story of her body / with his once and the stories of their children / made with other people and how his mind went on / pressing hers like a body."

— Rich, Adrienne (1929-2012)

Date: 2005

"Odd things were unearthed, bits of memory that must have been floating around like the fragment of bone inside my knee."

— McCarthy, Tom (b. 1969)

Date: 2005

"I looked away from them and saw in my mind's eye a plane bursting open and transforming itself into cloud."

— McCarthy, Tom (b. 1969)

Date: 2006

"If our thoughts / and feelings were soup or stew, would they taste / of bile when we're defeated and be flavored / faintly with grace on better days?"

— Gerstler, Amy (b. 1956)

Date: 2006

"While the amygdala's role as a sentinel and trigger for distress is old news to neuroscience, its social role, as part of the brain's system for emotional contagion, has been revealed only recently."

— Goleman, Daniel (b. 1946)

Date: 2007

"In my mind's eye the road to London is always wet in the winter, and since that is the only eye with which I shall ever see it, wet it remains."

— Gee, Sophie

Date: 2007

"'Happily for us both, the eye of the mind may visit Miss Fermor in her nightgown at any hour,' he said."

— Gee, Sophie

Date: 2007

"His mind's eye was entirely absorbed by recalling Arabella's form and figure; the tip of her tongue touching upon her teeth as she spoke; the hair disordered about her face: innocent as a child's, yet knowingly, artfully caught up."

— Gee, Sophie

Date: 2007

"Every sight is gone in an instant, and I have only my mind's eye in which to keep a mean copy of the glorious original."

— Gee, Sophie

Date: 2008

"Mr. Ashok's face reappears now in my mind's eye as it used to every day when I was in his service--reflected in my rearview mirror."

— Adiga, Aravind (b. 1974)