Date: 1783
"If thoughts could occupy space, we might be tempted to think, that we had laid them up in certain cells or repositories, to remain there till we had occasion for them."
preview | full record— Beattie, James (1735-1803)
Date: 1783
"[W]hat Horace observes of words is equally true of thoughts ... every superfluity is lost, like water poured into a vessel already full."
preview | full record— Beattie, James (1735-1803)
Date: 1783
"These are some of the general heads, under which may be arranged the manifold treasures of human Memory."
preview | full record— Beattie, James (1735-1803)
Date: 1794
"No--long they lived great nature to explore, / Their minds enriching with poetic store."
preview | full record— Pointon, Priscilla [AKA Priscilla Pickering] (c. 1740-1801)
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)