Barrels Quote by Adrienne Rich

Lay down these words Before your mind like rocks. placed solid, by hands In choice of place, set Before the body of the mind…

— Gary Snyder

“Memory is the seamstress, and a capricious one at that. Memory runs her needle in and out, up and down, hither and thither. We…

— Virginia Woolf

“poetry’s favourite moment is when one loses one’s footing because of a landslide or seismic shaking of thought”

— Michel Leiris

“There the traveller meets aghast Sheeted Memories of the Past— Shrouded forms that start and sigh As they pass the wanderer by— White-robed forms…

— Cassandra Clare

When the starry sky, a vista of open seas, or a stained-glass window shedding purple beams fascinate me, there is a cluster of meaning,…

— Julia Kristeva

“A ghost-memory rises, here: a phantom moment, a shaky reflection in the pool of remembrance. I know how it felt when the scavengers took…

— Neil Gaiman

Thought, stumbling, plods Past fallen temples, vanished gods, Altars unincensed, fanes undecked, Eternal systems flown or wrecked; Through trackless centuries that grant To the…

— Alfred Austin

There's something about the shape that a poem takes in my mind before I write it that has to do with suddenness.

— Dana Goodyear

Writing that gets rewritten as the earth moves. If you look at the sky that way, it's this massive shifting poem, or maybe a…

— Maria Dahvana Headley

“My theme is memory, that winged host that soared about me one grey morning of war-time. These memories, which are my life--for we possess…

— Evelyn Waugh

“as the tides of history rise and fall, worldviews rise and fall with them,”

— Heath White

Poetry and imagination begin life. A child will fall on its knees on the gravel walk at the sight of a pink hawthorn in…

— Florence Nightingale