Date: 1939
"My thinking relates to theology like the blotting page to the ink. It has entirely soaked itself full with it. If the blotting paper had its way, nothing that is written would remain."
preview | full record— Benjamin, Walter (1892-1940)
Date: 1990
"The soul too / is a debasement / of a text, but, thus, it / acquires salience, although a / human salience, but / inimitable, and, hence, memorable."
preview | full record— Lee, Li-Young (b .1957)
Date: 1999
"I tried to keep my mind white and blank."
preview | full record— Budnitz, Judy (b. 1973)