Date: 1922
"The poet's mind is in fact a receptacle for seizing and storing up numberless feelings, phrases, images, which remain there until all the particles which can unite to form a new compound are present together."
preview | full record— Eliot, T. S. (1888-1965)
Date: 1922
"The joy in your maturity at length, / The peace that filled my soul like cooling wine, / When you responded to my tender strength, / And pressed your heart exulting into mine."
preview | full record— McKay, Claude (1889-1948)
Date: 1929
"Goldsmith deliberately sipping at the honey-pot of his mind."
preview | full record— Yeats, W. B. (1865-1939)
Date: 1929
"Such fullness in that quarter overflows / And falls into the basin of the mind / That man is stricken deaf and dumb and blind, / For intellect no longer knows / Is from the Ought, or Knower from the Known."
preview | full record— Yeats, W. B. (1865-1939)
Date: 1938
Travel may "put a stopper on those memories you would like to resurrect. It does not always work, of course, sometimes the scent is too strong for the bottle, and too strong for me. And then the devil in one, like a furtive peeping Tom, tries to draw the cork."
preview | full record— Du Maurier, Daphne, Lady Browning (1907-1989)
Date: 1938
"'If only there could be an invention,' I said impulsively, 'that bottled up a memory, like a scent. And it never faded, and it never got stale. And then, when one wanted it, the bottle could be uncorked, and it would be like living the moment all over again.'"
preview | full record— Du Maurier, Daphne, Lady Browning (1907-1989)