Date: 1958
"Consciousness is like a bottomless lake in which ideas are suspended at different depths."
preview | full record— Peirce, Charles Sanders (1839-1914)
Date: 1955, 1958
"It [the title of this book] is used out of context but expresses the way I felt about these poems when I wrote them---as if they were, taken together, a kind of Coney Island of the mind, a kind of circus of the soul."
preview | full record— Ferlinghetti, Lawrence. (b. 1919)
Date: 1955, 1958
"It will be dark out there / with the Salvation Army Band. / And the mind its own illumination."
preview | full record— Ferlinghetti, Lawrence. (b. 1919)
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: 1959, 1964
"run your finger along your no-moss mind / that's not a thought that's soot"
preview | full record— O'Hara, Francis Russell "Frank" (1926-1966)
Date: 1960
"Different persons growing up in the same language are like different bushes trimmed and trained to take the shape of identical elephants."
preview | full record— Quine, W. V. O. (1908-2000)
Date: 1960
"Physical things generally, however remote, become known to us only through the effects which they help induce at our sensory surfaces."
preview | full record— Quine, W. V. O. (1908-2000)
Date: 1963
"What I didn't say was that each time I picked up a German dictionary or a German book, the very sight of those dense, black, barbed-wire letters made my mind shut like a clam."
preview | full record— Plath, Sylvia (1932-1963)
Date: 1963
"Then he started talking about let a equal acceleration and let t equal time and suddenly he was scribbling letters and numbers and equals signs all over the blackboard and my mind went dead."
preview | full record— Plath, Sylvia (1932-1963)