Delight Quote by John Hollander

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 learned by heart and then not again repeated. We will suppose that after a half year it has been forgotten: no…

— Hermann Ebbinghaus

“The most important lesson I took away from my year on the competitive memory circuit was not the secret to learning poetry by heart,…

— Joshau Foer

“How we perceive the world and how we act in it are products of how and what we remember...No lasting joke, invention, insight, or…

— Joshua Foer

A poem is but a thought, a mere memory caught at play. From hand onto paper, bleeding thoughts emerge.

— Robert M. Hensel

Now more than ever, as the role of memory in our culture erodes at a faster pace than ever before, we need to cultivate…

— Joshua Foer

The most important tribute any human being can pay to a poem or a piece of prose he or she really loves is to…

— George Steiner

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

— Peter Davison

Memory has always been fundamental for me. In fact, remembering what I had forgotten is the way most of the poems get started.

— Seamus Heaney

The single thing I've found it valuable to memorize is poetry.

— Caterina Fake

Poetry is the memory of language

— Jacques Roubaud

My father read poetry to me, encouraged me to memorize poems. But the writing of it was quite a different thing.

— C. K. Williams