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Date: 2007

"In my mind's eye the road to London is always wet in the winter, and since that is the only eye with which I shall ever see it, wet it remains."

— Gee, Sophie

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Date: 2007

"'Happily for us both, the eye of the mind may visit Miss Fermor in her nightgown at any hour,' he said."

— Gee, Sophie

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Date: 2007

"His mind's eye was entirely absorbed by recalling Arabella's form and figure; the tip of her tongue touching upon her teeth as she spoke; the hair disordered about her face: innocent as a child's, yet knowingly, artfully caught up."

— Gee, Sophie

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Date: 2007

"The renowned Italian castrato Nicolini was presently making a sedate crossing of the stage in a pasteboard boat, singing of violent tempests in both heart and mind."

— Gee, Sophie

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Date: 2007

"Every sight is gone in an instant, and I have only my mind's eye in which to keep a mean copy of the glorious original."

— Gee, Sophie

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