Date: 2002

"There is the story of the mind's temperature neither cold nor celibate."

— Rich, Adrienne (1929-2012)

Date: 2003

"Believe the fallen leaf / from one world floats there, / in another, tawny star on the black water, / the soul's cradle, / even when he must pause / to rest his racing heart, / & cannot see it?"

— Spaar, Lisa Russ

Date: 2004

"Those final sounds, however, are nothing like the wind moving through the vacancy of a mind."

— Rankine, Claudia (b. 1963)

Date: 2006

"Evacuate your mind of clutter now."

— Wetzsteon, Rachel

Date: 2006

"I do my best, squeezing the static and / the agony into a straight flat line, / but soon it soars and dips until my mind's / activity looks (you can take the girl...) / uncannily like the Manhattan skyline."

— Wetzsteon, Rachel

Date: 2006

"I'm watching them all right, unruly dots / I not only can't part from but can't help / transforming into restless bodies -- they're / no sooner being thought than sprouting limbs, / no longer motionless but striding proudly, / beautiful mental jukeboxes that play / their litanies of joy and woe ...

— Wetzsteon, Rachel

Date: 2009

"These are some of the things // you don't have to know because the melody / is like a small bird, maybe a yellow canary, / that wings its way into your mind / --no, into your heart-- / where there's a perch already // set up for it, a little trapeze / to swing back and forth on as it sings / and...

— Raab, Lawrence (b. 1946)

Date: June 1, 2010

"Books live in the mind like honey inside a beehive.

— McGrath, Campbell (b. 1962)

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)

Date: April 4, 2011

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

— Williams, C. K. (b. 1936)