Date: January, 1884
"From the dawn of an individual consciousness to its close, we find each successive pulse of it capable of mirroring a more and more complex object, into which all the previous pulses may themselves enter as ingredients, and be known."
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Date: January, 1884
"But as the distribution of brain-tension shifts from one relative state of equilibrium to another, like the aurora borealis or the gyrations of a kaleidoscope, now rapid and now slow, is it likely that the brain's faithful psychic concomitant is heavier-footed than itself, that its rate of chang...
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Date: January, 1884
"The significance, the value, of the image is all in this halo or penumbra, that surrounds and escorts it, -- or rather that is fused into one with it and has become bone of its bone and flesh of its flesh; leaving it, it is true, an image of the same thing it was before, but making it a...
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Date: January, 1884
"The present image shoots its perspective far before it, irradiating in advance the regions in which lie the thoughts as yet un-born."
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Date: January, 1884
"I wish that space were here afforded to show what, in most cases of rapid thinking, the fringe or halo is with which each successive image is enveloped."
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Date: 1890
"We noticed smallest things, / Things overlooked before, / By this great light upon our minds / Italicized, as 't were."
preview | full record— Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886)
Date: 1892
"I found the phrase to every thought / I ever had, but one; / And that defies me,--as a hand / Did try to chalk the sun // To races nurtured in the dark."
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Date: 1892
"It's past set down before the soul, / And lighted with a match, / Perusal to facilitate / Of its condensed despatch."
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Date: 1892
"Grant me, O Lord, a sunny mind, / Thy windy will to bear!"
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Date: 1900
"But thought that strives to reunite / In polished facets of the mind / The broken colours of the light / Baffled in mists of human kind."
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