Date: 1949
"The mind is its own place and in his inner life each of us lives the life of a ghostly Robinson Crusoe."
preview | full record— Ryle, Gilbert (1900-1976)
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)