Date: 1936
"Everything is sordid, shoddy, thin as pasteboard. A Coney Island of the mind."
preview | full record— Miller, Henry (1891-1980)
Date: 1936
"The monarch of the mind is a monkey wrench."
preview | full record— Miller, Henry (1891-1980)
Date: 1937
"They are gadget-minded. If they see a thing that needs to be done, they rig up a device, mechanical or mental, and make the thing do itself with no further bother."
preview | full record— Newton, Joseph Fort (1876-1950)
Date: 1937
"My hat is off to the gadget mind."
preview | full record— Newton, Joseph Fort (1876-1950)
Date: 1937
"But, my friend goes on to say, there are some fields in which the gadget mind will not work; and here he gets under our skin a bit."
preview | full record— Newton, Joseph Fort (1876-1950)
Date: 1937
"In other words, my friend argues rightly, something more than a gadget mind is needed to deal with the issues now before mankind."
preview | full record— Newton, Joseph Fort (1876-1950)
Date: 1937
"Yes, the gadget mind is useful in its place; it can do many things. But the spiritual mind, God-illumined, is the hope of the race."
preview | full record— Newton, Joseph Fort (1876-1950)
Date: 1941, 1942
"I think that his [the poet's] function is to make his imagination theirs and that he fulfills himself only as he sees his imagination become the light in the minds of others."
preview | full record— Stevens, Wallace (1879-1955)