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Date: 1782

Books may adorn one's "intellects as well as shelves"

— Cowper, William (1731-1800)

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Date: 1782

A people may receive the "transcript of the eternal mind"

— Cowper, William (1731-1800)

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Date: 1782

One may have a mind "Not yet so blank, or fashionably blind, / But now and then perhaps a feeble ray /Of distant wisdom shoots across his way."

— Cowper, William (1731-1800)

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Date: w. 1782-3, 1801

Love's laws may be "written in the mind"

— Cowper, William (1731-1800)

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Date: 1788

"Well-tutor'd Learning, from his books / Dismiss'd with grave, not haughty looks, / Their order on his shelves exact, / Not more harmonious or compact / Than that, to which he keeps confined / The various treasures of his mind."

— Cowper, William (1731-1800)

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