Historian Quote by Marie Howe

“Memory is a poet, not a historian.”

— Paul Geraldy

“Memory is not history, even though memories may be among the evidence a historian examines in constructing a historical past.”

— Terry Nardin

I believe poetry has very little to do with memory.

— Nick Flynn

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

— Peter Davison

Memory is each man's poet-in-residence.

— Stanley Kunitz

A people's memory is history; and as a man without a memory, so a people without a history cannot grow wiser, better.

— I. L. Peretz

“History and memory aren't the same thing[...] History doesn't abide acts of the imagination but memories depend on it. And memories are as much…

— Peter Geye

I am not a historian. I am a writer obsessed with remembering, with remembering the past

— Eduardo Galeano

There's a preoccupation with memory and the operation of memory and a rather rapacious interest in history.

— Penelope Lively

Poetry is the memory of language

— Jacques Roubaud

The past is more than a memory.

— John Trudell

History is the memory of things said and done.

— Carl L. Becker