Date: 1913
"But there was a twist in his brain which made his pictures of real life appear like scenes looked at through flawed glass."
preview | full record— Gosse, Edmund (1849-1928)
Date: 1914
"nd I know that just as the voice of Jesus was not heard, and is not heard, save here and there; just as the voice of Tolstoy is not heard, save here and there; and others great and small are lost in the great echoless desert of indifferentism, having produced little perceptible effect, so my voi...
preview | full record— de Cleyre, Voltairine (1866-1912)
Date: 1914
"I think with all his purity Emerson had within him the turbid stream of passion and desire; for all his hard-cut granite features he knew the instincts of the weakling and the slave; and for all his sweetness, he had the tiger and the jackal in his soul."
preview | full record— de Cleyre, Voltairine (1866-1912)
Date: 1916
"The demon of sexuality comes to our soul like a serpent."
preview | full record— Jung, Carl (1875-1961)
Date: 1916
"The demon of spirituality descends into our soul like a white bird."
preview | full record— Jung, Carl (1875-1961)
Date: 1918
"He had a mind so fine that no idea could violate it."
preview | full record— Eliot, T. S. (1888-1965)
Date: 1918
"Mr. Chesterton's brain swarms with ideas; I see no evidence that it thinks."
preview | full record— Eliot, T. S. (1888-1965)
Date: 1919
"My memories simply trooped the colour."
preview | full record— Cummings, Bruce Frederick [pseud. W. N. P. Barbellion] (1889-1919)
Date: 1919
"Every man is an inexhaustible treasury of human personality. He can go on burrowing in it for an eternity if he have the desire--and a taste for introspection."
preview | full record— Cummings, Bruce Frederick [pseud. W. N. P. Barbellion] (1889-1919)
Date: 1919
"In default of others, I am myself my own spectator and self-appreciator--critical, discerning, vigilant, fond!--my own stupid Boswell, shrewd if silly. This spectator of mine, it seems to me, must be a very moral gentleman and eminently superior. His incessant attentions, while I go on my way mi...
preview | full record— Cummings, Bruce Frederick [pseud. W. N. P. Barbellion] (1889-1919)