Forgetting Quote by Marianne Boruch Download Open image ““We lose names of things. Then the things they named.”” — Marianne Boruch ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.7 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Forgetting Loss Memory Poetry Sad
“People often lose their names. Names fall into holes or get eaten by wild animals. Sometimes they’re carried away by the wind.” — Eliza Granville Copy Share Image
“All things are defined by names. Change the name, and you change the thing.” — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“They say that nameless things change constantly -that names fix them in place like pins. But without a name, a thing isn't quite real… — Holly Black Copy Share Image
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“A good name is seldom regained. When character is gone, all is gone, and one of the richest jewels of life is lost.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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To walk into Bill Olsen's poems is to enter a mind so weirdly curious, you can't be released to sadness, not yet: it's just too surprising. But this book-half microscope, half telescope-shadows grief, our shared and ordinary life where an old neighbor obsessively gathers twigs to wish back the tree, where the moon is regularly ‘sawn in half,’ where sprinklers… — Marianne Boruch Copy Share
A pencil in my hand, its secret life / is charcoal, the wood already burnt, / a sacrifice. — Marianne Boruch Copy Share Image
A poem is a box, a thing, to put other things in. For safe keeping. — Marianne Boruch Copy Share Image
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Absolute is a game with only one player where Absolute forgets itself so it would have a reason to fulfill the motion while returning. — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
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“Forgetting is what nature does best. The universe is a huge forgetting machine. It erases information no matter how hard we try to hang onto it. How could it be any different? What if the memory of everything that ever happened still existed? The universe would be clogged with information, so packed with it we couldn’t move. We’d be paralyzed,… — Carolyn Ives Gilman Copy Share
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We in the Hispanic community are truly tired of both the Democrats and the Republicans promising all of these things during the campaigns and… — Jorge Ramos Copy Share Image
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Pretty much all I'm doing during an eating contest is being uncomfortable and not forgetting to breathe. — Joey Chestnut Copy Share Image
