Date: 1900
"When by the wind of Thought is stirred / Obscure Religion, throned in mist, / 'She has not said her final word' / Declares the staunch apologist."
preview | full record— Money-Coutts, Francis Burdett Thomas, 5th Lord Latimer (1852-1923)
Date: 1900
"But thought that strives to reunite / In polished facets of the mind / The broken colours of the light / Baffled in mists of human kind."
preview | full record— Money-Coutts, Francis Burdett Thomas, 5th Lord Latimer (1852-1923)
Date: 1901-2, 1902
"It is to be hoped that we all have some friend, perhaps more often feminine than masculine, and young than old, whose soul is of this sky-blue tint, whose affinities are rather with flowers and birds and all enchanting innocencies than with dark human passions, who can think no ill of man or God...
preview | full record— James, William (1842-1910)
Date: 1904
"[A]round all the nuclei of shared 'reality,' as around the Dyak's head of my late metaphor, floats the vast cloud of experiences that are wholly subjective."
preview | full record— James, William (1842-1910)
Date: 1911
"Sensations rain in on you as in a dream, but you suppress all but what are useful for your conscious purpose."
preview | full record— Lewis, Edwin Herbert (1866-1938)
Date: November 1914
"Sorrow like a ceaseless rain / Beats upon my heart."
preview | full record— Millay, Edna St. Vincent (1892-1950)
Date: 1926
"With you, my heart is quiet here, / And all my thoughts are cool as rain."
preview | full record— Parker, Dorothy (1893-1967)
Date: 1931
"As you remember I am a great one for mugginess--of air, mind or imagery."
preview | full record— Tuve, Rosemund (1903-1964)
Date: 1932
"The climate of the mind is positively English in its variableness and instability."
preview | full record— Huxley, Aldous (1894-1963)
Date: 1932
"Herbert is the poet of this inner weather."
preview | full record— Huxley, Aldous (1894-1963)