Memories Poetry Quotes

#1. Don't forget to collect the memories on your journey. Remember, if you only focus on your destination, you will miss out on the benefits of the journey.

Tanya R. Liverman

#2. And, even yet, I dare not let it languish,
Dare not indulge in memory's rapturous pain;
Once drinking deep of that divinest anguish,
How could I seek the empty world again?

Emily Bronte

#3. Life's full of loss, who knows the cost, living in the memory of the love that never was.

Linda Ronstadt

#4. I breathe in...the silence
of my own heart
aching with tenderness
with memories..
Of home.

Sanober Khan

#5. when I finally begin to drift
into sleep
your memory is the...first
and the moonlight
the last, to kiss my face.

Sanober Khan

#6. our feet
are grape-squashed in memories

our skins are still flushed
from the touch
of summer's lips.

Sanober Khan

#7. You were the hardest year of my life and I've never been so happy. What does that say about me?

Charlotte Eriksson

#8. Cut lose your ties with expectation. Your dreams are charlatans, your memories, stalemating quarks. Listen only to the pull of your atoms and follow the discordant hum of your personal entropy.

Virginia Petrucci

#9. Before you, life was desolate - the past hardly worth remembering - and now, each moment a keepsake I can't throw away ...

John Geddes

#10. Memories are either the greatest poetry, when they are memories of a vital happiness, or a burning pain, when they touch dried wounds.
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Ivan Goncharov

#11. Conservatism makes no poetry, breathes no prayer, has no invention; it is all memory. Reform has no gratitude, no prudence, no husbandry.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#12. Poetry...is full of visions pulled more from our hearts than from our minds. Our greatest poems are written in the dust of our deepest memories.

John Ritter

#13. Time is spent never bought.
Minutes count when seconds blur.
Memories are past that's caught.
Imaginings are future's lure."

Cass and Silver Rainbow-

Vaun Murphrey

#14. I kept you so well, buried beneath the darkest shame and stilled with filthy lies. Perhaps I should have dug deeper.

Nicole Lyons

#15. Memory exercised in a particular way is a natural gift of poetic genius. The poet above all else, is a person who never forgets certain sense impressions which he has experienced and which he can relive again as though with all their original freshness.

Stephen Spender

#16. We know
The wheel of time moves on
New bonds, new ties ignite
Moments fleet, memories drift, shadows glide
There is always a hope
At the horizon we seek.

Balroop Singh

#17. The wheat field has ... poetry; it is like a memory of something one has once seen. We can only make our pictures speak.

Vincent Van Gogh

#18. Where we must go will all mysteries be untold: and on passing from this day what new sea our memories hold...

Franco Esposito

#19. Anyone who has no need of anybody but himself is either a beast or a God.
Aristotle

Bruce Wayne Sullivan

#20. Stephen kissed me in the spring,
Robin in the fall,
But Colin only looked at me
And never kissed at all.
Stephen's kiss was lost in jest,
Robin's lost in play,
But the kiss in Colin's eyes
Haunts me night and day.

Sara Teasdale

#21. most of the times
it's the hardest
to say
what I love more

you

or

your memory.

Sanober Khan

#22. Ere long this golden light shall pass and fade
Except all cherish'd mem'ries ye have made.

Timothy Salter

#23. Today I bumped into you again. You seemed like that flower long forgotten in the old diary.

Avijeet Das

#24. A song rises up from the belly of my past
and rocks me in the bosom of buried memories.

Brenda Sutton Rose

#25. And you never realize
How much the darkness
Has robbed of the light
Until the very faces you love
Become ghosts
Memories.

Christopher Lilley

#26. I'm merely dying to be remembered for simply writing about my living memories

Michael Biondi

#27. Reciting poetry isn't acting, it's memory work. Actor's are deceivers. People who pretend to be something else for a living aren't right in the head.

Hetty King

#28. We are silent haters
communicating through
memories and tears
We are silent lovers
communicating through
poetry and lyrics

Shannon Lynette

#29. If I'm not around
I hope you'll remember me
and together we will hold on to our favorite song.

Sanober Khan

#30. Many great works of art, poetry, and music are inspired by astral memories. The desire to do noble, beautiful things here on Earth is also often a carryover of astral experiences between a person's earth lives.

Paramahansa Yogananda

#31. Pages burnt, memories buried, I wake
or think I'm awake. Or dreaming still?

Yong Shu Hoong

#32. The storms inside uncoil
into sky held calm by far seeing eyes
Memories dressed in the translucent
trickery of the mind,
so as to wear life upon themselves,
give up their tired dance and run
into free frequency

Tamara Rendell

#33. Honor Lost

Ambulant sunshine pierced
the soot covered glass ~
the feeble man wandered by
in this ritual morning pass ...

Muse

#34. Everything is an echo of something I once read.

Dream, hope, and celebrate life!

Love always comes back in a song.

One thing we all have in common is a love for food and drink.

Memories never die, and dreams never end!

What is time?

John Siwicki

#35. Poetry is the memory of language

Jacques Roubaud

#36. In Italy, almost at every step, history and poetry add to the graces of nature, sweeten the memory of the past, and seem to preserve it in eternal youth.

Madame De Stael

#37. The poetry of a people comes from the deep recesses of the unconscious, the irrational and the collective body of our ancestral memories.

Margaret Walker

#38. Perfume is a story in odors, sometimes a poetry of memory

Jean-Claude Ellena

#39. for those memories are now
just like these little kittens
I hold in my hands

those can be kissed
and treasured
but not held too tightly.

Sanober Khan

#40. There are few greater treasures to be acquired in youth than great poetry-and prose-stored in the memory. At the time one may resent the labor of storing. But they sleep in the memory and awake in later years, illuminated by life and illuminating it.

Richard Livingstone

#41. I fought for you, I fought for us
I fought for the memories and the laughter that came upon us,
Now here we are, we have become unknown people to each other,
Worlds apart in an instant, for what once was is now gone
So tell me what your secret is to letting go like you did.

Tanzy Sayadi

#42. Following the invention of writing, the special form of heightened language, characteristic of the oral tradition and a collective society, gave way to private writing. Records and messages displaced the collective memory. Poetry was written and detached from the collective festival.

Harold Innis

#43. Moments caught in time. Simple memories spread out before me. Timeless reminders of how life goes on, even when it feels as if you cannot.

Jay Long

#44. It's a showy habit I've got," I say. "To be always quoting poetry and stuff. Some of us use our brains, and some of us use our memories.

Barbara Trapido

#45. This empty shell holds nothing but the echoes of what was.

Jenim Dibie

#46. I adore forgotten words, long lost folk tales, and books with pages soft and crumbling. I am a collector of scents and memories. The things that others bury are the things I hold most dear.

Nichole McElhaney

#47. you were
and always will be

that first ever touch
to have fertilized
the ground
beneath my life's trees

that first ever rose
to have fragranced
the rest of my memories.

Sanober Khan

#48. It must have been an endless breathing in: between the wish to know and the wish to praise there was no seam.

Margaret Atwood

#49. some winters
will never melt

some summers
will never freeze

and some things will only
... live in poems.

Sanober Khan

#50. I recall that day on the beach - the sand so brilliant, the clouds so massive, and the wind punishing your hair ...

John Geddes

#51. At times you have to fight really hard to remember it. Fight within your mind's dungeons and bring it out alive before it could have been killed and buried forever by the demons living deep down inside your mind's dungeons.

Avijeet Das

#52. we always knew
that good times came
with termination contracts
even if we weren't quite ready
to sign it.

Sanober Khan

#53. Memories come to mind like excavated statues
that have misplaced their heads.

Wislawa Szymborska

#54. Memories are the height of poetry only when they are memories of happiness. When they graze wounds over which scars have formed they become an aching pain.

Ivan Goncharov

#55. Each morning the winds of the city moan and weep with lost souls clinging to hope of reliving the memories of yesterday.

Jason E. Hodges

#56. Good memories are my retirement plan.

Atticus

#57. The child I was
is just one breath away from me.

Sheniz Janmohamed

#58. I am filled time and again
with a heart-aching wonder
when I think

of the fire
and frost of memories

of the everlastingness
of love

the solace
of family
and the power
of prayer.

Sanober Khan

#59. Through the darkest hours of the night
and through the dreamers realm I seek,
Far beyond the starry sky
and beyond galaxies I am free.
Through the grimmest memories
and past a seasons air I cannot breathe,
Far beyond this mortal world
in an afterlife we shall meet.

Lee Argus

#60. True poetry is a function of awakening. It awakens us, but it must retain the memory of previous dreams.

Gaston Bachelard

#61. We went to watch the waves that bitter day and the wind took your red cap and mittens - blew them into the sea ...

John Geddes

#62. In visions of the night, like dropping rain,
Descend the many memories of pain

Aeschylus

#63. Strands of your hair and tendrils of the wind spin into nothingness the memories of that day ...

John Geddes