Able Quote by Hermann Ebbinghaus

I see that it is impossible to remember a long poem without practice and repetition; so is forgetfulness of the words of instruction engendered…

— Xenophon

A poem is an invocation, rebellious return to the blessedness of beginning again, wandering free in pure process of forgetting and finding.

— Susan Howe

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

— Gaston Bachelard

A poem is like a person. The more you know someone, the more you realize there is always something more to know and understand.…

— Matthew Zapruder

I think people turn to poetry more often than they think they do, or encounter it in more ways than they think that they…

— Natasha Trethewey

Poetry reminds us of the truths about life and human nature that we knew all along, but forgot somehow because they weren't yet in…

— Diane Ackerman

A poem is, so to speak, a way of making you forget how you wrote it.

— Randall Jarrell

There are so many things that poetry is about, one of which is memory.

— Peter Davison

As you continue writing and rewriting, you begin to see possibilities you hadn't seen before. Writing a poem is always a process of discovery.

— Robert Hayden

Poetry is an affair of sanity, of seeing things as they are, to recreate the familiar, eternalizing the poet's own perception in unique and…

— Philip Larkin

If a poem hasn't ripped apart your soul; you haven't experienced poetry.

— Anonymous

“Poetry has a long, long memory. After our love is long gone, we will still be reading your poems. You will not be the…

— Jeanette LeBlanc