Date: 1892
"The body grows outside,-- / The more convenient way,-- / That if the spirit like to hide, / Its temple stands alway // Ajar, secure, inviting."
preview | full record— Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886)
Date: 1892
"One need not be a chamber to be haunted, / One need not be a house; / The brain has corridors surpassing / Material place."
preview | full record— Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886)
Date: 1893
A woman's nature "is like a great house full of rooms ... and in the innermost room, the holy of holies, the soul sits alone and waits for a footstep that never comes."
preview | full record— Wharton, Edith (1862-1937)
Date: w. c. 1871, 1896
"Remembrance has a Rear and Front -- / 'Tis something like a House / It has a Garret also / For Refuse and the Mouse.."
preview | full record— Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886)
Date: 1912
"Famous garden where the passion, / Bursting first disclosed the morn / Whose effulgent, beaming glory / Cleft old Chaos, brain and spine; / Lit up incense burning shrine, / In the heart of man for Eve."
preview | full record— Beadle, Samuel Alfred (1857-1932)
Date: 1938
"Listen, kids who die-- / Maybe, now, there will be no monument for you / Except in our hearts / Maybe your bodies’ll be lost in a swamp / Or a prison grave, or the potter’s field, / Or the rivers where you’re drowned like Leibknecht / But the day will come-- / Your are sure yourselves that it is...
preview | full record— Hughes, Langston (1902-1967))
Date: 1954
"The furniture of our minds consists of what we hear, read, observe, discuss and think each day."
preview | full record— Watson, Thomas J. (1874-1956)
Date: 1959
"Look, the fixed stars, all just alike / as lack-land atoms split apart, / and the Republic summons Ike, / the mausoleum in her heart."
preview | full record— Lowell, Robert (1917-1977)
Date: 1966, 1968
"Otherwise they [the people we used to be] turn up unannounced and surprise us, come hammering on the mind's door at 4 a.m. of a bad night and demand to know who deserted them, who betrayed them, who is going to make amends."
preview | full record— Didion, Joan (b. 1934)
Date: 1968
"There is a little man who lives in one's head. The little man keeps a library."
preview | full record— Fodor, Jerry (b. 1935)