"Then as the years went on and my listening became more deliberate, I would climb up on an arm of our big sofa to get my ear closer to the wireless speaker."

Memory, Listening, Years

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"Then as the years went on and my listening became more deliberate, I would climb up on an arm of our big sofa to get my ear closer to the wireless speaker."

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"I still preserve those relics of past sufferings and experience, like pillars of witness set up in travelling through the valve of life, to mark particular occurrences. The footsteps are obliterated now; the face of the country may be changed; but the pillar is still there, to remind me how all things were when it was reared."

Anne Bronte, British Novelist

Memory, History, Reflection, Suffering

"Once time is lit, it will burn whether or not you're breathing it in. Even after smoke becomes air, there is the memory of smoke. I am seeing as if by the light of a match, a glimpse of my life and having it feel right."

David Levithan, American Author

Memory, Time, Life, Light

"This seems to have been St. Augustine's very notion of 'memory, ' not just nostalgia for some past moment, but connecting past, present, and future in one complete contemplative knowing."

Richard Rohr, American Theologian

Memory, Time, Identity, Reflection, Life

"It scares me how hard it is to remember life before you. I can't even make the comparisons anymore, because my memories of that time have all the depth of a photograph. It seems foolish to play games of better and worse. It's simply a matter of is and is no longer."

David Levithan, American Author

Memory, Life, Past, Emotion

"No doubt I would have felt reverent in less lovely places, because I imagined a past I connected to myself."

Siri Hustvedt, American Novelist

Memory, Reflection, Truth, Wisdom

"I was assailed by memories of a life that wasn't mine anymore, but one in which I'd found the simplest and most lasting joys: the smells of summer, the part of town I loved, a certain evening sky, Marie's dresses and the way she laughed."

Albert Camus, French Philosopher

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"Memory is the sense of loss, and loss pulls us after it."

Marilynne Robinson, American Author

Memory, Loss, Reflection, Truth

"The Jumble Shop would be one place where we'd sometimes accumulate down in the Village. I think it might be just a place that's unknown that was right around the corner from wherever it was that we met."

Lee Krasner, American Artist

Memory, Right

"You never know when you're making a memory."

Rickie Lee Jones, American Musician

Memory,

"Beyond the pain, anger and unforgiveness, there is only one thing; love. This is where the magic happens."

Renae A. Sauter, American Writer

Memory, Love, Healing, Emotion

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"As writers and readers, as sinners and citizens, our realism and our aesthetic sense make us wary of crediting the positive note."

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"When I first encountered the name of the city of Stockholm, I little thought that I would ever visit it, never mind end up being welcomed to it as a guest of the Swedish Academy and the Nobel Foundation."

Thought, Being, End, First

"Without needing to be theoretically instructed, consciousness quickly realizes that it is the site of variously contending discourses."

Consciousness,

"I have begun to think of life as a series of ripples widening out from an original center."

Life,

"I credit poetry for making this space-walk possible."

Poetry, Credit, Space

"Poetry is always slightly mysterious, and you wonder what is your relationship to it."

Poetry, Wonder

"Even if the hopes you started out with are dashed, hope has to be maintained."

Hope,

"There is risk and truth to yourselves and the world before you."

Truth, Risk, World

"The fact of the matter is that the most unexpected and miraculous thing in my life was the arrival in it of poetry itself - as a vocation and an elevation almost."

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"But that citizen's perception was also at one with the truth in recognizing that the very brutality of the means by which the IRA were pursuing change was destructive of the trust upon which new possibilities would have to be based."

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