Date: w. c. 1864, published 1929
"Experience is the Angled Road / Preferred against the Mind / By -- Paradox -- the Mind itself -- / Presuming it to lead."
preview | full record— Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886)
Date: November, 1930
"What's in your mind, my dove, my coney; / Do thoughts grow like feathers, the dead end of life; / Is it making of love or counting of money, / Or raid on the jewels, the plans of a thief?"
preview | full record— Auden, W. H. (1907-1973)
Date: 1931
"My Waxen heart, when near the Flame, / Yields to th' imprinted mould" but "hardens in the Cold"
preview | full record— Tickell, Thomas (1685-1740)
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: 1931
“Yes, let them all slip back once again into that closed world where, like their excreta, only what is organically and sensuously demonstrable is valid, let them feed off the routine detritus and mental excrement of what they call reality, for my part I will continue to regard The Monk a...
preview | full record— Artaud, Antonin (1896-1948)
Date: 1932
"A tiny core of stillness in the heart is like the eye of a violet."
preview | full record— Lawrence, D. H. (1885-1930)
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)
Date: December 28, 1932
"My own brain is to me the most unaccountable of machinery--always buzzing, humming, soaring roaring diving, and then buried in mud."
preview | full record— Woolf, Virgina (1882-1941)
Date: September, 1934
"When the mind is dark with the multiple shadows of facts, / There is no heat of the sun can warm the mind."
preview | full record— Miles, Josephine (1911-1985)