page 21 of 21     per page:
sorted by:

Date: 2010

"A thought to mind, so to the string / plucked, or touched, or bowed, the music is, / a wrinkling of the air as immaterial / and brief as sunlight glancing on a wave."

— Le Guin, Ursula (b. 1929)

preview | full record

Date: April 4, 2011

"For in mind should be voidy wings choiring, not selves."

— Williams, C. K. (b. 1936)

preview | full record

Date: April 21, 2014

"The tools of optogenetics are allowing scientists to perform the neuroscientific equivalent of "Chopsticks" in the brains of laboratory animals--to find and control, for example, neurons that control a kind of aggression in fruit flies."

— Anonymous

preview | full record

Date: 2017

"And my brain is like an orchestra / Playing on, insane"

— Lenker, Adrianne

preview | full record

Date: February 26, 2019

"But the real magic is witnessing her mind and imagination at work. They are as fertile and supple as jazz."

— McBride, James (b. September 11, 1957)

preview | full record

Date: August 13, 2020

"IF ONLY WE COULD UNDERSTAND WHAT LURKED IN HIS STRADIVARIUS OF A MIND!"

— Petri, Alexandra (b. 1988)

preview | full record

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