Date: 1924
"But circumstance cannot deepen or lighten the colour of a man’s mind; if we bring anything into the world it is the colour of our minds, and what is the colour of our minds but fate? and what is fate but character?"
preview | full record— Moore, George Augustus (1852-1933)
Date: 1931
"My Waxen heart, when near the Flame, / Yields to th' imprinted mould" but "hardens in the Cold"
preview | full record— Tickell, Thomas (1685-1740)
Date: 1936
"The monarch of the mind is a monkey wrench."
preview | full record— Miller, Henry (1891-1980)
Date: 1936
"The desires of the heart are as crooked as corkscrews."
preview | full record— Auden, W. H. (1907-1973)
Date: 1937
"Figure on her waxen mind / Images of life refin'd."
preview | full record— Philips, Ambrose (1674-1749)
Date: 1940
"The provinces of his body revolted, / The squares of his mind were empty, / Silence invaded the suburbs, / The current of his feeling failed; he became his admirers."
preview | full record— Auden, W. H. (1907-1973)
Date: 1940
"Well I really wouldn't care to scratch your surface, Mr. Kralik, because I know exactly what I'd find. Instead of a heart, a hand-bag. Instead of a soul, a suitcase. And instead of an intellect, a cigarette lighter... which doesn't work."
preview | full record— Raphaelson, Samson (1894-1983)
Date: 1942
"The squirming facts exceed the squamous mind, / If one may say so."
preview | full record— Stevens, Wallace (1879-1955)
Date: 1947, 1958
"Religion, ethics, metaphysics – these are merely the 'spiritual' and 'inner' festivals of human anguish, ways of channelling the black waters of anxiety – and towards what abyss?"
preview | full record— Lefebvre, Henri (1901-1991)
Date: 1949
"Or, to use another simile, mental processes are 'overheard' by the mind whose processes they are, somewhat as a speaker overhears the words he is himself uttering."
preview | full record— Ryle, Gilbert (1900-1976)