Memoir is trustworthy and its truth assured when it seeks the relation of self to time, the piecing of the shards of personal experience into the starscape of history's night. The materials of memoir are humble, fugitive, a cottage knitting… — Patricia Hampl Copy Share Image
The materials of true poetry are always humble, absolutely idiosyncratic, the autobiographical tatters that, in gifted hands, are made into the memoir that fits us all. — Patricia Hampl Copy Share Image
Writing was the soul of everything else ... Wanting to be a writer was wanting to be a person. — Patricia Hampl Copy Share Image
People come and go in life, but they never leave your dreams. Once they're in your subconscious, they are immortal. — Patricia Hampl Copy Share Image
We store in memory only images of value. The value may be lost over the passage of time, but that's the implacable judgment of… — Patricia Hampl Copy Share Image
“We carry our wounds and perhaps even worse, our capacity to wound, forward with us. If we learn not only to tell our stories… — Patricia Hampl Copy Share Image
French was the only language we had in common, and even that was like a dialect we had picked up at a rummage sale,… — Patricia Hampl Copy Share Image
Time, we like to say, cures all. But maybe the old saying doesn’t mean time heals. Time cures a secret in its brine, keeping… — Patricia Hampl Copy Share Image
No memoirists writes for long without experiencing an unsettling disbelief about the reliability of memory, a hunch that memory is not, after all, just… — Patricia Hampl Copy Share Image
Our capacity to move forward as developing beings rests on a healthy relationship with the past. Psychotherapy, that widespread method for promoting mental health,… — Patricia Hampl Copy Share Image
Prayer as focus is not a way of limiting what can be seen; it is a habit of attention brought to bear on all… — Patricia Hampl Copy Share Image
The golden light of metaphor, which is the intelligence of poetry, was implicit in alchemical study. To change, magically, one substance into another, more… — Patricia Hampl Copy Share Image
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