Degas, Edgar -- Quoted in Georges Jeanniot, “Souvenirs sur Degas [Memories of...
It is very good to copy what one sees; it is much better to draw what you can’t see any more but is in your memory. It is a transformation in which imagination and memory work together. You only...
View ArticleJerome, Jerome K. -- Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow, “On Memory” (1886)
I have no wish to remember everything. There are many things in most men’s lives that had better be forgotten. There is that time, many years ago, when we did not act quite as honorably, quite as...
View ArticleSantayana, George -- The Life of Reason, “Reason in Society,” ch. 2 “The...
Parents lend children their experience and a vicarious memory; children endow their parents with a vicarious immortality. George Santayana (1863-1952) Spanish-American poet and philosopher [Jorge...
View ArticleJerome, Jerome K. -- Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow, “On Memory” (1886)
Yes, it is the brightness, not the darkness, that we see when we look back. The sunshine casts no shadows on the past. The road that we have traversed stretches very fair behind us. We see not the...
View ArticleShakespeare, William -- Comedy of Errors, Act 3, sc. 1, l. 154ff...
BALTHASAR: For slander lives upon succession, Forever housèd where it gets possession. William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poetComedy of Errors, Act 3, sc. 1, l. 154ff (3.1.154-155)...
View ArticleJerome, Jerome K. -- Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow, “On Memory” (1886)
Life altogether is but a crumbling ruin when we turn to look behind: a shattered column here, where a massive portal stood; the broken shaft of a window to mark my lady’s bower; and a moldering heap of...
View ArticleIrving, John -- A Prayer for Owen Meany, ch. 1 “The Foul Ball” (1989)
Your memory is a monster; you forget — it doesn’t. It simply files things away. It keeps things for you, or hides things from you — and summons them to your recall with a will of its own. You think you...
View ArticleIdle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow, “On Memory” (1886)
That is just the way with Memory; nothing that she brings to us is complete. She is a willful child; all her toys are broken. I remember tumbling into a huge dust-hole when a very small boy, but I have...
View Article“Ohne die Nazis hätte es Billy Joel nie gegeben,” Die Welt (2009-05-10)
And in truth, of course, I’m not just 60 — I’m twelve, I’m 23, I’m 37, I’m 42, I’m 18. I’m every age I’ve ever been. Depending on what day of the week it is and what the situation calls for at the...
View ArticleThe Divine Comedy [Divina Commedia], Book 3 “Paradiso,” Canto 1, l. 4ff...
Within that heav’n which most receives His light Was I, and saw such things as man nor knows Nor skills to tell, returning from that height; For when our intellect is drawing close To its desire, its...
View Article“The Truth Is a Cave in the Black Mountains …”, Trigger Warning (2015)
I am old now, or at least, I am no longer young, and everything I see reminds me of something else I’ve seen, such that I see nothing for the first time. A bonny girl, her hair fiery red, reminds me...
View ArticleKeats, John -- Letter to Fanny Brawne (1820-03)
You are always new. The last of your kisses was ever the sweetest; the last smile the brightest; the last movement the gracefullest. John Keats (1795-1821) English poetLetter to Fanny Brawne (1820-03)
View ArticlePogrebin, Letty -- Deborah, Golda, and Me, ch. 1 (1991)
I want to visit Memory Lane, I don’t want to live there. Letty Cottin Pogrebin (b. 1939) American author, journalist, lecturer, social activistDeborah, Golda, and Me, ch. 1 (1991)
View ArticleLarkin, Philip -- “The Old Fools,” High Windows (1974)
Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms Inside your head, and having people in them, acting. People you know, yet can’t quite name. Philip Larkin (1922-1985) English poet, novelist, librarian“The Old...
View ArticleTeasdale, Sara -- “The Look,” Love Songs (1918)
Strephon kissed me in the spring, Robin in the fall, But Colin only looked at me And never kissed at all. Strephon’s kiss was lost in jest, Robin’s lost in play, But the kiss in Colin’s eyes Haunts me...
View ArticleLeonardo da Vinci -- MS. 2038, Bib. Nat. 34 r. [tr. McCurdy (1908)]
Just as eating contrary to the inclination is injurious to the health, study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in. Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) Italian artist,...
View ArticleAugustine of Hippo -- City of God [De Civitate Dei], Book 22, ch. 22 (22.22)...
Why is it that we remember with effort but forget without effort? That we learn with effort but stay ignorant without effort? That we are active with effort, and lazy without effort? [Quid est enim,...
View ArticleMcLaughlin, Mignon -- The Neurotic’s Notebook, ch. 5 (1963)
We hear only half of what is said to us, understand only half of that, believe only half of that, and remember only half of that. Mignon McLaughlin (1913-1983) American journalist and authorThe...
View ArticleBainbridge, Beryl -- “Beryl Bainbridge and Her Tenth Novel,” interview by...
Childhood is a thing that happens so early you don’t forget it. Everything else you grow out of, but you never recover from childhood. Beryl Bainbridge (1932-2010) English novelist“Beryl Bainbridge and...
View ArticleBachelard, Gaston -- The Poetics of Reverie, ch. 3 “Reveries Toward...
So, like a forgotten fire, a childhood can always flare up again within us. Gaston Bachelard (1884-1962) French philosopher.The Poetics of Reverie, ch. 3 “Reveries Toward Childhood,” sec. 2 (1969)
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