Date: 1922
"The poet's mind is in fact a receptacle for seizing and storing up numberless feelings, phrases, images, which remain there until all the particles which can unite to form a new compound are present together."
preview | full record— Eliot, T. S. (1888-1965)
Date: 1922
"My soul has grown deep like the rivers."
preview | full record— Hughes, Langston (1902-1967))
Date: 1922
"(he taps his brow) But in here it is I must kill the priest and the king."
preview | full record— Joyce, James (1882-1941)
Date: 1922
"Though they didn't see eye to eye in everything a certain analogy there somehow was as if both minds were travelling, so to speak, in the one train of thought."
preview | full record— Joyce, James (1882-1941)
Date: 1922
"Tonight deftly amid wild drink and talk, to pierce the polished mail of his mind."
preview | full record— Joyce, James (1882-1941)
Date: 1922
"Fed and feeding brains about me: under glowlamps, impaled, with faintly beating feelers: and in my mind's darkness a sloth of the underworld, reluctant, shy of brightness, shifting her dragon scaly folds."
preview | full record— Joyce, James (1882-1941)
Date: 1922
"In the intense instant of imagination, when the mind, Shelley says, is a fading coal, that which I was is that which I am and that which in possibility I may come to be."
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Date: 1922
"He laughed to free his mind from his mind's bondage."
preview | full record— Joyce, James (1882-1941)
Date: 1922
"I plucked my soul out of its secret place, / And held it to the mirror of my eye, / To see it like a star against the sky, / A twitching body quivering in space, / A spark of passion shining on my face."
preview | full record— McKay, Claude (1889-1948)