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Date: June 1, 2010

"Books live in the mind like honey inside a beehive.

— McGrath, Campbell (b. 1962)

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Date: 2010

"A thought to mind, so to the string / plucked, or touched, or bowed, the music is, / a wrinkling of the air as immaterial / and brief as sunlight glancing on a wave."

— Le Guin, Ursula (b. 1929)

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Date: 2010

"Yet as I lift up this / dull desert stone, the weight of it is full / of slower, longer thoughts than mind can have."

— Le Guin, Ursula (b. 1929)

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Date: 2010

"Be my mind, stone lying on my grave."

— Le Guin, Ursula (b. 1929)

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Date: April 4, 2011

"Theodicy-god has evolved now to both substance and not. / With handy metaphysical blades to slice brain meat from mind."

— Williams, C. K. (b. 1936)

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Date: April 4, 2011

"For in mind should be voidy wings choiring, not selves."

— Williams, C. K. (b. 1936)

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Date: April 24, 2011

"Imagination is branched, flowering, / and each fans the buds himself."

— Lee, Li-Young (b .1957)

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Date: April 24, 2011

"It's all song, all singing, the body's seat / and number, the mind's pleats, time's hem."

— Lee, Li-Young (b .1957)

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Date: April 24, 2011

"God seeks a destiny in all things fired / in the kiln of the sun or the mind."

— Lee, Li-Young (b .1957)

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Date: June, 2011

"No part of you is broken. / No bruises and no disease / and no neurological torpor / filling you up like a cold season."

— Guest, Paul

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The Mind is a Metaphor is authored by Brad Pasanek, Assistant Professor of English, University of Virginia.