Date: August 16, 1820
"My Imagination is a Monastery and I am its Monk--you must explain my metapcs to yourself."
preview | full record— Keats, John (1795-1821)
Date: December 27, 1823
"Now in filling my mind with them [ideas and facts], and in warming and animating me, you would, I doubt not, do me great good. And I am one of those substances, like sealing wax and other electric bodies, which require to be warmed in order to possess the faculty of attracting objects, of coveri...
preview | full record— Wilberforce, William (1759-1833)
Date: January 8, 1824
"The string you touched in your last truly kind letter has been vibrating ever since, and making music most delightful to a parent's mental ear; an organ not commonly noticed, but which is full as much in daily exercise as the mind's eye of which we speak so familiarly."
preview | full record— Wilberforce, William (1759-1833)
Date: June 19, 1834
"I know my own sentiments, because I can read my own mind, but the minds of the rest of man and woman-kind are to me as sealed volumes, hieroglyphical scrolls, which I can not easily unseal or decipher."
preview | full record— Brontë, Charlotte (1816-1855)
Date: June 19, 1834
"How many after having, as they thought, discovered the word friend in the mental volume, have afterwards found that they have read false friend!"
preview | full record— Brontë, Charlotte (1816-1855)
Date: June 19, 1834
"I have long seen 'friend' in your mind, in your words and actions, but now distinctly visible, and clearly written in characters that cannot be distrusted, I discern true friend."
preview | full record— Brontë, Charlotte (1816-1855)
Date: September, 1838
"The tree of my mind of its leaves is stripped, my witticisms too fine are clipped, the kernel out of the shell has been nipped."
preview | full record— Engels, Friedrich (1820-1895)
Date: September, 1843
"In Germany, everything is forcibly suppressed; a real anarchy of the mind, the reign of stupidity itself, prevails there, and Zurich obeys orders from Berlin."
preview | full record— Marx, Karl (1818-1883)
Date: Late Autumn, 1882
"A letter always seemed to me like Immortality, for is it not the mind alone, without corporeal friend?"
preview | full record— Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886)
Date: 1931
"As you remember I am a great one for mugginess--of air, mind or imagery."
preview | full record— Tuve, Rosemund (1903-1964)