Date: 2007
"'Happily for us both, the eye of the mind may visit Miss Fermor in her nightgown at any hour,' he said."
preview | full record— Gee, Sophie
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."
preview | full record— Gee, Sophie
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."
preview | full record— Gee, Sophie
Date: 2010
"One bore the Professorial stigmata, if only brainular, for years."
preview | full record— Castle, Terry (b. 1953)
Date: 2010
"I still have my old paperback copy of Spenser's poem and just looking at it--the pages and pages of bewildering verse in tiny print, the demented little crib notes I've scribbled in the margins--can induce in me a sort of mental seasickness."
preview | full record— Castle, Terry (b. 1953)
Date: 2010
"You've put it in the book and in reading it my brain is having a response like 'things as they are are really part of the world and I forgot.' How nice to just feel them roll over the brain! It's like a brain massage!"
preview | full record— Gallagher, Kirsten
Date: June 4, 2011
"My desk faces a wall covered with images, notes, timelines, vaudeville photographs and playbills; my keyboard sits in a small black space surrounded by piles of books and paper -- the brain disgorged and arrayed."
preview | full record— Endicott, Marina (b. 1958)
Date: June 14, 2011
"But they usually assume that the purpose of reasoning is to help an individual arrive at the truth, and that irrationality is a kink in that process, a sort of mental myopia."
preview | full record— Cohen, Patricia
Date: 2011
"There will be such an awful beauty in your heart. A wound like a seal upon it."
preview | full record— Nadzam, Bonnie
Date: December 9, 2015
"But it comes with a troubling idea of what literature is today: a salve for the distracted mind; a groove along which thoughts disordered by the bad habits of centripetal reading might fall back into line."
preview | full record— Lupton, Christina