Beautiful Quote by Maxine Hong Kingston

“Memories of our lives, of our works and our deeds will continue in others. From a small seed a mighty trunk may grow. In…

— Aesha K Shah

“You can't go back home to your family, back home to your childhood, back home to romantic love, back home to a young man's…

— Thomas Wolfe

“I remembered that once, as a child, I was filled with wonder, that I had marveled at tri-folded science projects, encyclopedias, and road atlases.…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

“Nostalgia is an affliction. Life a fever or a cancer, the longing for what had vanished wasting a person away. Not just the unbearable…

— Hala Alyan

Poetry keeps longing alive.

— Robert Bly

I think most good poetry is about suffering; I think that's what underlies the love in these landays pieces - suffering and longing.

— Eliza Griswold

“There is a hopeless longing for nostalgia that pervades the human soul, a return to the warm glow of remembrance or some imagined past.”

— Deborah L. Norris

“Nostalgia. It haunts us, it destroys us, and sometimes, its sentimentality consumes us piece by piece so that we may realize our once-familiar circumstance…

— Bryant A. Loney

“Nostalgia is not for the God who is missing to us, it is a nostalgia for ourselves, for we do not sustain ourselves; we…

— Clarice Lispector

The purpose of the poetry is not to dazzle us with an astonishing thought, but to make one moment of existence unforgettable and worthy…

— Milan Kundera

The bright days of my youthThey were full of hopeThe great journey that was before me thenWas what was destined to be, bye bye.Now…

— Enya

“One day when our hearts were young, we went roving with right good will, side by side two comrades to find what lay o'er…

— Brian Jacques