Date: 1890
"I've known her from an ample nation / Choose one; / Then close the valves of her attention / Like stone."
preview | full record— Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886)
Date: 1892
"Least village boasts its blacksmith, / Whose anvil's even din / Stands symbol for the finer forge / That soundless tugs within, // Refining these impatient ores / With hammer and with blaze, / Until the designated light / Repudiate the forge."
preview | full record— Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886)
Date: 2001
"Pebble, question, soul: no one can see all sides at once, but there is no side that cannot be seen."
preview | full record— Richardson, James (b. 1950)
Date: October 28, 2012
"Each grasped, in the unflinching gaze of the other, a silent acknowledgment of the nobility of man, especially as manifested in work, the work that purified the soul the way steel is purified in the smelter. That sort of thing."
preview | full record— Saunders, George (b. 1958)