Poetry Quote by Lawrence Raab Download Open image ““We want to forget until we start to forget. from the poem Regret”” — Lawrence Raab ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.8 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Poetry Regret
“Were it not better to forget Than but remember and regret” — Letitia Elizabeth Landon Copy Share Image
“I am midway from forgetting to remembering. I do not know how long it will take before I return to all of myself. Yes,… — Ibtisam Barakat Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“(...) always regretted that good memory often prevents us from thinking for ourselves.” — Frank Harris Copy Share Image
“Yet if you should forget me for a while And afterwards remember, do not grieve; For if the darkness and corruption leave A vestige… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“memory and regret can mingle, how much sorrow can be held within, and how nothing seems to have any shape or meaning until it… — Colm Tóibín Copy Share Image
“Forgetting isn’t the key to moving on. Remembering is, because only once we’ve remembered can we forget.” — Emma Hart Copy Share Image
“There are things that one keeps on dreaming of forgetting, while others were ought to be remembered, but were kept off.” — Fady Seleem Copy Share Image
The name Phenomenal Woman was inspired by Maya Angelo, who wrote 'Phenomenal Woman', a favorite poem of mine. — Meena Harris Copy Share Image
A poet is wounded into speech, and he examines these wounds, meticulously, to discover how to heal them. The bad poet harangues at the… — Samuel R. Delany Copy Share Image
The poetry from the eighteenth century was prose; the prose from the seventeenth century was poetry. — David Hare Copy Share Image
“It took me years to learn to sit at my desk for more than two minutes at a time, to put up with the solitude and the terror of failure, and the godawful silence and the white paper. And now that I can take it . . . now that I can finally do it . . . I'm really… — Erica Jong Copy Share
The word 'mundane' has come to mean 'boring' and 'dull', and it really shouldn't - it should mean the opposite. Because it comes from… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“In the streets, the children scream, the lovers cried, and the poets dreamed,” he crooned, putting down the metal grill tongs to take my… — Alexandria Clarke Copy Share Image
Some minds corrode and grow inactive under the loss of personal liberty; others grow morbid and irritable; but it is the nature of the… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
You don’t read or overhear the voice in the poem, you are the voice in the poem. — Helen Vendler Copy Share Image
All lyrical work must, as a whole, be perfectly intelligible, but in some particulars a little unintelligible. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The world's history is a divine poem, of which the history of every nation is a canto, and every man a word. Its strains have been pealing along down the centuries, and though there have been mingled the discords of warring cannon and dying men, yet to the Christian philosopher and historian - the humble listener - there has been… — James A. Garfield Copy Share
