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Date: 1818

"These painful ideas crossed her mind, though she said nothing."

— Austen, Jane (1775-1817)

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Date: 1818

"Catherine's understanding began to awake: an idea of the truth suddenly darted into her mind."

— Austen, Jane (1775-1817)

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Date: 1820

"Then let winged Fancy wander / Through the thought still spread beyond her:"

— Keats, John (1795-1821)

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Date: 1820

"And we breathe, and sicken not, / The atmosphere of human thought: / Be it dim, and dank, and gray, / Like a storm-extinguished day, / Travelled o'er by dying gleams; / Be it bright as all between / Cloudless skies and windless streams, / Silent, liquid, and serene; / As the birds within the win...

— Shelley, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822)

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The Mind is a Metaphor is authored by Brad Pasanek, Assistant Professor of English, University of Virginia.