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Date: 2004

"O woman, with a mind Picasso / could have painted, giving you many cheeks, / each one turned a different way."

— Sholl, Betsy

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Date: 2004

"Nature provides a first draft, which experience revises."

— Marcus, Gary (b. 1970)

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Date: 2004

"Ramachandran is a latter-day Marco Polo, journeying the silk road of science to strange and exotic Cathays of the mind."

— Dawkins, Richard (b. 1941)

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Date: 2004

"Those final sounds, however, are nothing like the wind moving through the vacancy of a mind."

— Rankine, Claudia (b. 1963)

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Date: Summer, 2004

"Because of the way we live, the basement of the American mind fills up with the sexual use of other people."

— Greif, Mark (b. 1975)

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Date: Summer, 2004

"Even on the subway and in the street, porn-i-color daydreams issue through our mental viewfinders."

— Greif, Mark (b. 1975)

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Date: 2004

Now your Pen shall be as liquid and infinite as your Mind as you complete 'Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets'!"

— Wayne, Teddy

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Date: 2005

"When we get rid of all the clutter in the mind, the illusions, delusions we've lived with so long, it makes room for new concepts, different ways of looking at ourselves and the world around us."

— Rogers, Barb

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Date: 2005

"The mind is like an umbrella."

— Rogers, Barb

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Date: 2005

"It was as though my memories were pigeons and the accident a big noise that had scared them off."

— McCarthy, Tom (b. 1969)

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The Mind is a Metaphor is authored by Brad Pasanek, Assistant Professor of English, University of Virginia.