History Quote by Pat Conroy

“Memories of the outside world will never have the same tonality as those of home and, by recalling these memories, we add to our…

— Gaston Bachelard

“Poetry...is full of visions pulled more from our hearts than from our minds. Our greatest poems are written in the dust of our deepest…

— John H Ritter

“Memory is a poet, not a historian.”

— Paul Geraldy

Poetry is the memory of language

— Jacques Roubaud

“For my part, I love to give myself up to the illusion of poetry. A hero of fiction that never existed is just as…

— Washington Irving

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

— Peter Davison

“A poet, you see, is a light thing, and winged and holy, and cannot compose before he gets inspiration and loses control of his…

— Plato

“Memories are either the greatest poetry, when they are memories of a vital happiness, or a burning pain, when they touch dried wounds. p. 479”

— Ivan Goncharov

“A true poet writes from the language and experiences of their own heart, not those of others.”

— Suzy Kassem

“There are many unspeakable words, forgotten, or forbidden. Great thanks to the poets who make them all become reachable.”

— Toba Beta

“Every poet... finds himself born in the midst of prose. He has to struggle from the littleness and obstruction of an actual world into…

— Thomas Carlyle

“I write poems to save myself, to preserve in ink memories of me long after my soul has dissolved and my bones melted, joined…

— Ayokunle Falomo