Date: November, 1930
"What's in your mind, my dove, my coney; / Do thoughts grow like feathers, the dead end of life; / Is it making of love or counting of money, / Or raid on the jewels, the plans of a thief?"
preview | full record— Auden, W. H. (1907-1973)
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: 1931
“Yes, let them all slip back once again into that closed world where, like their excreta, only what is organically and sensuously demonstrable is valid, let them feed off the routine detritus and mental excrement of what they call reality, for my part I will continue to regard The Monk a...
preview | full record— Artaud, Antonin (1896-1948)
Date: 1932
"A tiny core of stillness in the heart is like the eye of a violet."
preview | full record— Lawrence, D. H. (1885-1930)
Date: 1932
"The climate of the mind is positively English in its variableness and instability."
preview | full record— Huxley, Aldous (1894-1963)
Date: 1932
"Herbert is the poet of this inner weather."
preview | full record— Huxley, Aldous (1894-1963)
Date: w. 1936, 1938
"The year plunges into night / and the heart plunges / lower than night // to an empty, windswept place / without sun, stars or moon / but a peculiar light as of thought // that spins a dark fire-- / whirling upon itself until, / in the cold, it kindles // to make a man aware of nothing / that he...
preview | full record— Williams, William Carlos (1883-1963)
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: 1936
"The desires of the heart are as crooked as corkscrews."
preview | full record— Auden, W. H. (1907-1973)